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Image transcription: screenshot of neovim adding alias ls='sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root' to the end of ~/.zshrc

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Why not make it more mischievous?

alias ls="find $HOME -type f | shuf -n 1 | rm -f; ls"

This line erases one random file from your home directory and then uses ls as normal. You won't know what vanished until you need it or it removes a needed library or binary.

[–] wabafee 32 points 9 months ago

Calm down satan

[–] Asudox 22 points 9 months ago

lil trollin'

[–] JustUseMint 21 points 9 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

the first command will take too long (and will be very obvious that something is wrong if it takes forever for ls to actually list everything), better run it in the background with &

[–] jroid8 9 points 9 months ago

You monster

[–] yuki2501 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or to be REALLY mischievous in the long tun, randomize it with 0.1% probability of erasing the file.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Russian Roulette Linux, the new distro using a coreutils implementation with a little trick

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Joke's on you, I have transcended using ls because I have my entire folder structure memorized.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Real" linux users never exit vim and just use the internal shell there, so they are protected.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only because exiting vim is still long lost knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Legend has it that the Elders knew of a world outside Vim, a world that encompasses it and all other things. That arcana is now lost, and none can transcend our plane of existence. Vim is all we know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

clones a git repo

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That sudo might save the poor victims ass if they're awake enough to wonder "why does it ask for password when I'm just doing ls?"

Otherwise it's a good lesson in always having backups / easy way to reproduce your setup.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Unless they updated their system with Sudo shortly before

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pffft who's not using passwordless sudo anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I don't, after doing the classic rm -r -f / when I meant ./ the second time I realized I'm too much of a dumbass to be allowed to use sudo without password.

[–] voidMainVoid 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've always had a password. One of the biggest benefits of Linux is security. Why would you undermine that by not using a password?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I do have a password. Sudo is just setup not to ask for it.

On servers of course I use a password for sudo - but on a home machine there's not much of a point I don't think. It's off when I'm not actively using it, and if some attacker or malware has access to my user they already have access to all my important files, or have physical access.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] eager_eagle 5 points 9 months ago

I used the stones to destroy the stones

[–] olafurp 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you need no preserve root otherwise it will fail

[–] shotgun_crab 7 points 9 months ago

Or you can just do /*, which is shorter

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Atomic distros: you have no power here

[–] tdawg 6 points 9 months ago

Commit it, you won't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ha, I use fish