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Re:Suicide Linux (2011) by vortico on Saturday April 18, 2015 @07:00PM (#9401417)
The -r enters the directory recursively, so it's the same result.
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Re:Suicide Linux (2011) by tiddlydum on Saturday April 18, 2015 @07:11PM (#9401445)
Not these days; rm refuses to recurse on root. This can be overridden with --no-preserve-root or by appending a *.
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