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Re:Don't touch my clipboard by Lex-2008 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:12AM (#22355356)
worth noting that it can be trivially workarounded by adding an asterisk at the end: `rm -rf /*` still works.
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Re:Don't touch my clipboard by jeroenhd on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:20AM (#22355398)
Fair enough, but on the other hand there's nothing preventing you from just putting --no-preserve-root in the command either. I see the feature as something to prevent accidents, not as a way to secure the rm command.
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Re:Don't touch my clipboard by tomjakubowski on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:50AM (#22365374)
That version will helpfully leave behind any .files lingering in /
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