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submitted 5 days ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Surprisingly I have not heard this before

sudo rm -rf /bin/*

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn't know it stood for binary or whatever