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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe I've never seen rm -fr instead of rm -rf. "remove for real" is instantly my new method of deleting directories.

[–] vkirlin 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been doing -fr like forever. Don't know why

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been doing -fr like forever. Don't know why

BURN THE HERETIC

[–] vkirlin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

rf makes it seem like recurse/force instead of some genz/genalpha shorthand