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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you allow root privileges, there is:

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

If you want to be malicious:

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

or

sudo find / -exec shred -u {} \;

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Let's extend a little and really do some damage

    for x in /dev/(sd|nvme)*; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=$x bs=1024 & ; done

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Now alias ls= all that. And throw it in a background process. And actually return the value of ls so it doesn't look like anything nefarious is going on.

    I bet you could chroot into a ram disk so you're not tearing the floor out from under you.

    The victim would find this prank hilarious and everyone would like you and think you're super cool.

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