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Who hasn't typed a risky command? Throw the first stone! (programming.dev)
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Sudo rm -rf .

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Right, so then if asterisk wildcards don’t match on . and .. then, in most common distros where there is no dot in any of the top level dirs in /, “rm -rf *.*” in the top level / dir is basically harmless and likely a noop.

So OP is wrong.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Technically, it says he's in the ~ directory, which would usually be /home/god, but even in there there aren't usually any directories/files with a dot.