Lines of code that changed everything

Re:Lines of code that changed everything by Hitton on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:28PM (#21652295)

Also "rm -rf /*". It taught generations of sysadmins and programmers not to run code they don't understand.

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by magoghm on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:40AM (#21654868)

To err is human, to really foul up requires the root password.

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by 0x8BADF00D on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:43PM (#21652900)

More generally, it taught us to be careful with string substitution and interpolation.

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by Izkata on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:25PM (#21654153)

There's actually (at least) two versions of GP's comment - unsafe code/data, what you appear to be referring to:

  rm -rf $FOO/*

And typos, which is what I first thought of upon reading it:

  rm -rf . /*

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by Analemma_ on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:51PM (#21652965)

Well, "us" except Unix and Unix-like developers, where "rm -rf /*" still works like it always did, unless your rm added --no-preserve-root or some similar ugly hack.

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by aepiepaey on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:19AM (#21656325)

:(){:|:&};:

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