<div dir='auto'>Thanks Colin, and ouch! But as I say, I've backed up most files elsewhere, so not the end of the world, thank the Lord.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I didn't put a space after the /, but I did, as advised, put a full stop before config</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, I've cleared a lot of junk from the hard drive and perhaps this might be an opportunity to stall a much larger drive and more RAM before restoring from the backup.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you once again 🙂</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bill Thomson</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 Mar 2020 11:30, Dave Hodgkinson via Swlug <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">> <br>
> rm -rf is even more dangerous when used with sudo, I am not even going to type the full command but if one were trying to remove /etc/somefolder for example did sudo rm followed / etc/somefolder (with an accidental space after the /) then that would erase the whole disc partition.</p>
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