gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ ls
bridge navidrome seed traefik
gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ ls *.*
ls: cannot access '*.*': No such file or directory
gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ cat *.*
cat: '*.*': No such file or directory
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.
At least bash doesn’t seem to match it…
gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ ls bridge navidrome seed traefik gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ ls *.* ls: cannot access '*.*': No such file or directory gregor@raspberrypi:~ $ cat *.* cat: '*.*': No such file or directoryRight, 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.