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Who hasn't typed a risky command? Throw the first stone! (programming.dev)
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Sudo rm -rf .

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

well, depending on your shell

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Which shell interprets * as everything before extension?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well I’m not necessarily commenting on the *.* but * will skip .files in bash.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think *. * also skips them

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

*.* 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 fish doesn’t work like bash in this specific case