Sudo rm -rf .
There’s an ancient UNIX copypasta that’s basically the plot of this comic, but it’s troublingly hard to find the original online.
Here’s one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html
I don’t remember “technocrat” being part of the original, but it wouldn’t be the first time my recollection has been wrong.
Hahaha that’s funny
Decades ago I ran an “rm -fr *” as root, I thought that I was ~/bin, but I was in /bin. That was a fun lesson.
Production system, first day, did it at / and it wasn’t until I saw /bin scrolling by that I realized my mistake.
Luckily it was a stateless system and a reboop brought it back but i learned a valuable lesson that morning.
I got into this bad habit of trompsing around as root on our dev systems at work because who gives a shit we abuse and reprovision those systems all the time.
But then I find myself at home on one of my home servers or desktops fumbling around as root. Because I don’t want to constantly run sudo. Fortunately nothing bad has happened, bad enough to be memorable anyway, in the last 20 years or so. I guess I’m still pretty careful. Or lucky.
DOS user detected! In linux you don’t need
*.*, you can just use*Going to point out that not only is *.* unnecessary, but he’s in ~ (home) so assuming it even worked he just deleted his home.
Well, guess that’s it for heaven
God programmed the universe into DOS
This explains a lot.
well, depending on your shell
Which shell interprets * as everything before extension?
Well I’m not necessarily commenting on the
*.*but*will skip .files in bash.
Don’t forget to add the
-vto see the apocalypse unfold in real-time!Alabado sea El Omnissiah.
- El Señor Archmagos Miguelito Malparido Hijo de Puta VII
Thats what this is for:
tail -f earth.log
That’s not how you remove the French
Well, you can’t call yourself a computer expert until you erase your entire drive or make it unbootable at least 3 times.
Well I’m 2/3 the way to being a computer expert (Technically I would be at 3/3 at least, but taking bad updates is a repeate and doesn’t include me messing around with stuff)
resizepart 1 128Instead of 128GiB …bad daySilly god! You just had to
chattr -i!“All-knowing” my ass. Half-baked deity can’t even gentoo.
did that once but instead ran
rm -rf /instead ofrm -rf ./
