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    [–] mojo@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I've never actually tried this but feel like rm should have a built in warning specifically for that command letting them know they've been trolled and have a y/N prompt.

    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f

    [–] Flumsy@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You also need the flag "--no-preserve-root".

    [–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think that is only if you pass /, I don't think the flag is required for /* which is what is shown here - if I remember right, it's because the * triggers the shell to expand the paths and that flag is only built to protect / (from say, having an empty variable alongside /).

    [–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes, the * is expanded by the shell so the rm command just sees lots of individual files being passed in

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