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Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoFun fact, RM -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /
Comment on Linux Best Practices
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoFun fact, RM -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /
koper@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It’s slightly different. Your shell will see the
/\*and replace it with all the directories under /, e.g./bin /dev /etc /homeetc. So the actual command that runs isrm -rf /bin /dev /etc /homeetc.