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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)
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[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Never create a file named "-rf *" unless you really plan on keeping it.

[-] dwt@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) 
rm ./—rf\ \*

Am I missing something?

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure that you belong in this thread :)

[-] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not going to try it but... rm "./-rf *" would do the same? rm "./-rf \*" maybe?

[-] dwt@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Couldn’t get single quotes to type on my phone, but best to always use them for problems like that, to completely get rid of shell interference.

[-] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I always forget about the single quotes.

[-] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

If you do want to try, just start a docker container and try inside there. That should negate all risk

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