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Foolishness (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by spigeon@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Not in this case. It's */ here so it expands to directories at current location. I'm sure that's a typo though

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I'm not brave enough to test it on my distro, so I'll take your word on that lol

[–] narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You can do echo */ and echo /* to see how they expand. Also rm -rf / already is enough without the * as it already is recursive

[–] second@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

rm -rf / needs --no-preserve-root on GNU coreutils, I think.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

why do they even have that lever

[–] second@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Originally, rm would merrily nuke your whole filesystem if you told it to. At some point, someone thought that was a pretty stupid default behaviour, so they added that flag to change the default to not nuke your entire filesystem. However, they made the change backwards compatible in case someone still needed the old behaviour. I can imagine in a container or throwaway environment, it might be vaguely reasonable to expect to be able the blat /.