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Linux Best Practices (lemmy.world)
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[–] 45 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Fun fact, rm -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago*

    It's slightly different. Your shell will see the /* and replace it with all the directories under /, e.g. /bin /dev /etc /home etc. So the actual command that runs is rm -rf /bin /dev /etc /home etc.

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