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I accidentally found out one day that I could use a wildcard operator in the terminal instead of a full file or folder name due to always doing this.
Will for example open my "Photo Examples" folder in the working directory or based on the path
cd /
sudo rm -rf *
Basically the Linux version of deleting system32 but idk I'm not a super Linux nerd yet.
The fun thing is that you can create a file named "-rf *" and hope an admin tried to delete it!