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[Scott Howard]

There was very clearly something wrong with the question from the start.
The command described doesn't actually do what the author suggested (wipe
the entire machine) - in fact, it does nothing but return an error.

# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
#

This functionality was added probably close to 10 years ago, and will be in
every even close-to-current linux distribution now days.

 Scott



On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Avi Miller <avi.miller at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 16 Apr 2016, at 10:15 AM, Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at zoho.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ---- On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:43:45 +1000 Andy Farkas wrote ----
> >
> >> Ah, Stephen, you've been suckered in by an Internet meme.
> >>
> >> -andyf
> >
> >
> > J'accuse .. prove it
>
>
> http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question
>
> It was a hoax/marketing ploy.
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
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