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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by timseal on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:36PM (#11500137)
In the manpage for rm, I see "--no-preserve-root do not treat ‘/’ specially (the default)". For real? The default is to do the worst thing?
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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by cyphar on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:10AM (#11502715)
No, the default is to do nothing. The (default) refers to "treat root specially" not the flag.
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