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when you notice that the rm command takes longer to run than expected (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by SlizedOnion@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Though the check isn't very sophisticated, if memory serves. It more or less checks whether / is passed to rm -r.

If you did something like rm -r $VAR/*, but didn't check to make sure that $VAR was set and not empty, it could still fire, since rm wouldn't see that root got passed, only a bunch of directories in root.