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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I'm not brave enough to test it on my distro, so I'll take your word on that lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You can do echo */ and echo /* to see how they expand. Also rm -rf / already is enough without the * as it already is recursive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

rm -rf / needs --no-preserve-root on GNU coreutils, I think.

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