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don't do ai and code kids (quokk.au)

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the original Reddit post the full command is given as rmdir /s /q d:\ which does indeed include the flag to remove files and subdirectories.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Jesus it's not even like it just ran rmdir from the current directory and got lost, it just flat out explicitly deleted everything from the root of the drive