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[–] db2 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

rm -yrf ~/*

(Just in case, don't do that)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You know that Linux has protection against rm -rf / since a few years ?

Guess it's a sign that Linus got milder on the way, growing old :-) And the terrible BOFH joke of this grew old and boring as well. Gotta take care about new Linux users.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what? Will it warn me for removing the french language pack? That's what I call bloat!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually that's RMS getting older. Afaik only GNU rm protects the root.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

🙂 👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

rm is part of GNU or busybox though.

[–] db2 4 points 2 months ago

That wasn't the command I wrote though

[–] psud 1 points 2 months ago

They said ~/

I don't think there's any protection for the current user's home directory

[–] dopeshark 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean that's not the name of your cat and I shouldn't type it in my terminal?

[–] db2 2 points 2 months ago

Only at work when logged in to the admin account.