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I can't believe I've never seen
rm -frinstead ofrm -rf. "remove for real" is instantly my new method of deleting directories.I've been doing -fr like forever. Don't know why
BURN THE HERETIC
Just alphabetical order 😄
rf makes it seem like recurse/force instead of some genz/genalpha shorthand