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redshift25d ago
I finally ran a command I had feared all my life. I ran: sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / on a VPS I was cancelling. It was beautiful.
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Big Barry Bitcoin25d ago
I love how -f wasn't enough, they had to add --no-preserve-root because people were copy pasting and executing the command 😄
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redshift25d ago
Haha, ikr. rm -rf is so easy to type as well, they wanted to make it harder to type the real thing.
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vinney...axkl11d ago
I once did this accidentally on a client's machine when I was much younger and less careful. I think about it almost every time I run "rm -rf /[....]". sometimes if i know i'm going to be removing a slash-something path I will intentionally not add the "-rf" until after typing the path lol. scarred for life
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redshift11d ago
Ikr! I haven't done that but everytime I type -rf i double check what I've typed lol.
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vinney...axkl11d ago
The issue was I was trying to hit <right shift> with my pinkie, so I could enter an uppercase character after the `/` (it was a mac). and instead of <right shift> I hit <enter>.... From then on, I always used <left shift> with `rm` commands 😆
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