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Oh no! 🤦‍♂️ (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand the eagerness of most people to go nuclear by adding potentially dangerous arguments when not required.

Use rmdir to remove a directory you expect to be empty, not rm -rf

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It's because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don't know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can't think of a single time I've ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.