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Share a script/alias you use a lot
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Not on mine tho
With how many new Linux users we get recently, I don't like this joke at all without a disclaimer. Yes yes, its your own fault if you execute commands without knowing what it does. But that should not punish someone by deleting every important personal file on the system.
In case any reader don't know,
rmis a command to delete files and with the optionrm -reverything recursively will be searched and deleted on the filesystem. Option-f(here bundled together as-rf) will never prompt for any non existing file. The/here means start from the root directory of you system, which in combination with the recursive option will search down everything, home folder included, and find every file. Normally this is protected todo, but the extra option--no-preserve-rootmakes sure this command is run with the root/path.Haha I know its funny. Until someone loses data. Jokes like these are harmful in my opinion.
So, as a beginner, you would know how to make an alias but not the most famous Linux joke ever ? Explain your mental gymnastics.
You don't need to understand a command in order to copy paste an alias or Bash function. Especially newcomers could tend to do it, without knowing what the command actually does. We are also in a posting with helpful commands, so its double harmful. And you doubling down without adding any sort of disclaimer shows you don't care.