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To me this is no different than telling someone to kill themselves as a joke.
It was funny years ago as a teenager but now it's just mean and a dick move.
Is this, like, the delete system 32 of Linux?
This is
Sudo - Super user do; or root < admin
RM - Remove
F - forced, it won’t warn you that you are deleting your system
R - Recursively, it will delete every directory hereafter
/ - the start of your system…so everything but it not being there would do this as well
Never rm -rf if you actually need to do it for something then you know well enough that it is necessary
Thank you for the breakdown. Always wondered what those commands meant
Ah the linux version of delete system32 or charge your phone in the microwave.
It's more like delete C:/
System32 and everything else.
I get these are jokes but I really don’t find anything funny about it, it becomes a meme and then people start getting more creative and pushing it more and being more covert and people come up with other little japes then new Linux users get their shit destroyed and maybe important info gets lost or precious memories so they say Linux is a piece of shit and go back to windows.
It’s not even funny to start with so when it inevitably inspires people to be assholes and bullies that’s all we’ve achieved.
copied from the original post but was exactly what was going through my mind
Absolutely agreed. I caught major flak the last time that I saw this. Not a fan of setting up ignorant newbs to be laughed at and potentially need to write fresh resumes. Yeah, you shouldn't take a meme at face value for advice on your professional life but, it just comes across as a bit mean-spirited.
This is not malicious because it will not work. You'd need --no-preserve-root to actually do anything.
Edit seems I was wrong
The use of /* might get around that, because the shell expands it to /usr /var /lib /home etc.
Yeah it's a joke that's at least a decade old, probably over two decades old.
And one of the most important aspects of comedy is knowing your audience. If this was said to a group of linux sysadmins I guess it's not dangerous, but it's still an old joke so not going to get much of a laugh. But if it's said to people new to linux, then it can cause damage. So it's either not funny (we all heard that one before) or an asshole prank, so not funny and malicious.
Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /
What do you think this means?
force delete recursive
I just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.
The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr
ok
...that is in fact the joke
Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.
That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️
The French 🤢🤮
Ah, the French
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Nah I’m going to leave it there in case one day I want to read French
You must be a masochist.
You misspelled "Arch user"
Arch user won't even have a language pack if he doesn't install it
True Arch Linux user doesn't need a single language pack
Including English
Hey I mean if the shoe fits right? Why fight it.
In 20+ years of linuxing, I've never thought about putting the f first until now.
I always put the f last, as in first the whole command, then go back and write the -rf, just because if I accidentally press enter I don't want an uncompleted path to be destroyed.
Imagine my mixed emotions when I’ve been doing ‘ls -la’ since I remember and watch someone do ‘ls -al’.
I always do - lha or -la, but sometimes I did -a and I want the L, so I reuse the old command and add a l, making it -al.
I use -al because it's in alphabetical order and reminds me of "all".
I cut my teeth on DOS. I use dir instead of ls. Please don't shame me.