this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

be sure to add -no-preserve-root to make sure ultra french is gone too

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

no need, since /* doesn't start at root, it'll not trip the safety

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think you’re wrong but I’m not willing to test it to see

[–] can 6 points 10 months ago
[–] ReveredOxygen 4 points 10 months ago

the shell expands it to rm -fr /bin /etc /usr /home /dev and so on. rm never sees the /, so the safety doesn't trigger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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