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

submitted 19 hours ago by calango@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Sudo rm -rf .

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Right, so then if asterisk wildcards don’t match on . and .. then, in most common distros where there is no dot in any of the top level dirs in /, “rm -rf *.*” in the top level / dir is basically harmless and likely a noop.

So OP is wrong.