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[–] rhebucks-zh@incremental.social 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦‍♀️

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you think this means?

[–] rhebucks-zh@incremental.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

I just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.