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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linux Best Practices

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /

[–] Wilzax 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

[–] NikkiDimes 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...that is in fact the joke

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

Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.

[–] NikkiDimes 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦‍♀️