Sudo rm -rf .
DOS user detected! In linux you don’t need
*.*, you can just use*God programmed the universe into DOS
This explains a lot.
Going to point out that not only is *.* unnecessary, but he’s in ~ (home) so assuming it even worked he just deleted his home.
Well, guess that’s it for heaven
well, depending on your shell
Which shell interprets * as everything before extension?
Well I’m not necessarily commenting on the
*.*but*will skip .files in bash.
I think *. * also skips them
*.*will likely expect a file named*.and then delete any file globbed, but still leave dotfiles. At least in bash.In my shell it would just error at me and then I’d be mad
fishdoesn’t work likebashin this specific case
Decades ago I ran an “rm -fr *” as root, I thought that I was ~/bin, but I was in /bin. That was a fun lesson.
Production system, first day, did it at / and it wasn’t until I saw /bin scrolling by that I realized my mistake.
Luckily it was a stateless system and a reboop brought it back but i learned a valuable lesson that morning.
reboop
I got into this bad habit of trompsing around as root on our dev systems at work because who gives a shit we abuse and reprovision those systems all the time.
But then I find myself at home on one of my home servers or desktops fumbling around as root. Because I don’t want to constantly run sudo. Fortunately nothing bad has happened, bad enough to be memorable anyway, in the last 20 years or so. I guess I’m still pretty careful. Or lucky.
That’s not how you remove the French
I found this magical command to send 50kb of random text data to meta’s server to fill up their database with garbage data. I don’t know how to do it on massive scale but at least I am doing my part by running this command 24/7 :)
while true; do echo "$(openssl rand -hex 500000)" | netcat instagram.com 80 & disown; done;Aren’t you just providing them with free pseudo-random data, while reducing the randomness of your own system?
love it :D
I once read somewhere 30 years ago to literally sit on your hands when doing stuff like that.
I have followed this advice since, and confused a lot of co-workers over the years when i stop what i’m doing and sit on my hands while i re-read what is on the screen.
humans make mistakes, and sometimes mistakes are really really not what you want. everything that helps is a good thing :)
There’s an ancient UNIX copypasta that’s basically the plot of this comic, but it’s troublingly hard to find the original online.
Here’s one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html
I don’t remember “technocrat” being part of the original, but it wouldn’t be the first time my recollection has been wrong.
Hahaha that’s funny
Even God is trying to remove the French
resizepart 1 128Instead of 128GiB …bad dayDon’t forget to add the
-vto see the apocalypse unfold in real-time!Alabado sea El Omnissiah.
- El Señor Archmagos Miguelito Malparido Hijo de Puta VII
Thats what this is for:
tail -f earth.log
Silly god! You just had to
chattr -i!“All-knowing” my ass. Half-baked deity can’t even gentoo.
Well, you can’t call yourself a computer expert until you erase your entire drive or make it unbootable at least 3 times.
Well I’m 2/3 the way to being a computer expert (Technically I would be at 3/3 at least, but taking bad updates is a repeate and doesn’t include me messing around with stuff)
did that once but instead ran
rm -rf /instead ofrm -rf ./
