[LINK] Friday :)

[Andy Farkas]

On 16/04/2016 14:44, Scott Howard wrote:
> 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.
>

You assume he was using leenux.

A real BSD-based OS would do what you tell it.

-andyf