calango@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 15 hours agoWho hasn't typed a risky command? Throw the first stone!programming.devimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1418file-text
arrow-up1418imageWho hasn't typed a risky command? Throw the first stone!programming.devcalango@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 15 hours agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 hours agoRight, 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.
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.