[Nottingham] *nix most dangerous command line commands...

[Jason Irwin]

On 12/06/14 12:13, Peter Stokes wrote:
> 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......

Luckily that will no longer work any more (certainly on modern
Debian-based systems). One needs to add "--no-preserve-root". Of course,
that doesn't protect one from being fat-fingered in other locations....

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