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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It doesnt work for me,

C:\Users\HelloHotel> rm -rf /*

not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\HelloHotel> 

Why

Edit: this is a joke, daily drive linux. (I even think cmd would give a diffrent error message than "not a command") the child comments are an absolute shitshow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a Linux command. It means Remove (rm) from the root folder (rf) everything, and don't warn me about this action (/*)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't tell if you're joking or if I misunderstood what you wrote.

It's remove (rm) recursively (allow removing folders) (-r) and "force" (don't prompt for confirmation, e.g. when removing write protected files) (-f) everything in the root folder (/*)

With -r and -f getting combined into -rf of course.

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