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Rule for Beginners (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linux Best Practices

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

...that is in fact the joke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you think this means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

force delete recursive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.