• nogrub@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    never execute “sudo rm -r / --no-perserve-root” because you whole sytem will be gone edit i forgot the directory

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      1 year ago

      the -delete option in find goes AFTER the expression.

      find -delete [whatever] will delete EVERYTHING in the current directory and below, like rm -rf *

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        1 year ago

        Huh. I wonder if GNU find should be modified, so that -delete only works when explicitly given a directory.