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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] nogrub 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

never execute "sudo rm -r / --no-perserve-root" because you whole sytem will be gone edit i forgot the directory

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

the -delete option in find goes AFTER the expression.

find -delete [whatever] will delete EVERYTHING in the current directory and below, like rm -rf *

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Huh. I wonder if GNU find should be modified, so that -delete only works when explicitly given a directory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This shouldnt do anything since you didn't gave it a directory to start with.

[–] nogrub 1 points 10 months ago

oh yeah i forgot a /