[Nottingham] *nix most dangerous command line commands...
Peter Stokes
peter at ashlyn.co.uk
Thu Jun 12 11:23:09 UTC 2014
Hi Paul
Good point and the reason why some o/s change the rm to so it asks if you really want to do this....
Peter
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On 12 Jun 2014, at 12:18, Paul <reclusivegeek at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Oh yes and also remember it will delete all mounted/network drives that are not mounted read only. I have know it happen when someone forgot the . in the command rm -Rf ./* intending to delete a subdirectory tree.
>
> Paul
>
> On 12 Jun 2014, at 12:13, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Many moons ago, I was on a customer site logged in as root and mistyped the cd location I wanted to go to, then not realising I was still in the / directory, I then typed
>>
>> rm -r *
>>
>> End of operating system......
>>
>> Thankfully the system was a workstation and not of vital use.....!
>>
>> Peter
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>> On 12 Jun 2014, at 12:01, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> OK folks,
>>>
>>> I'll start the bits rolling with the question of how much damage can you
>>> do to a Linux system as root with just one mistyped or missed character
>>> on the command line?
>>>
>>>
>>> My little gem for alarm is:
>>>
>>> cat >>to_append_text_to_config_file
>>>
>>> ...and using ">" create/overwrite rather than ">>" append...
>>>
>>> !
>>>
>>>
>>> Similarly, using "whatever_command 2>&1 | tee -a append_to_log_file" and
>>> forgetting the "-a"...
>>>
>>>
>>> Other good one's for "ouch" that others trip over?
>>>
>>> Can commands be made 'defensively' 'safer'?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
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