In Praise Of –Dry-Run

Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by Mawr on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:30AM (#46846837)

Uhuh:

    $ rm -rf /

    rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
    rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

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Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by account42 on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:00AM (#46856122)

That's a special case that is a) easy to call accidentally from a script when variables end up being unset and b) almost never a sensible thing to do.

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