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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by oriond@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

because I wanted to delete something? It was probably 23 odd years ago

[–] oriond@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think in these days, rm will warn you if you do a
rm -rf /

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah. Just curious if you were actively trying to nuke a distribution or were following instructions from a troll online or something.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 8 months ago

It was one of those moments where you just mistype something when trying to clear out a whole dir