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    And that is why snapshots exist (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Though the Windows thing was really funny ๐Ÿ˜‚.

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 116 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    doing exactly what the caller intended.

    No, no. Exactly what the user told it to do. Not what they intended. There's a difference.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Exactly type rm -rf / instead of rm -rf ./ and you ducked up. Well you messed up a long time ago by having privileges to delete everything, but then again, you are human, some mistakes will be made.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Deleting the current directory via ./ seems contrived since you would just use . or more likely the directory name from outside the directory. What does happen is rm -rf ${FOO}/ while ${FOO} is an empty string.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

    Not sure if you're referencing the Steam incident, but Steam did exactly that: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week_steam_cleans_linux_pcs/

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