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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Never create a file named "-rf *" unless you really plan on keeping it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children) 
rm ./—rf\ \*

Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm not going to try it but... rm "./-rf *" would do the same? rm "./-rf \*" maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Couldn’t get single quotes to type on my phone, but best to always use them for problems like that, to completely get rid of shell interference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I always forget about the single quotes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If you do want to try, just start a docker container and try inside there. That should negate all risk

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