Hello,
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Apropos "rm -rf /".
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> > Seriously, has anyone tried it?
>
> I recall doing this once with user-mode-linux but didn't record the
> session. You may want to try it with u-m-l or with qemu. It hurts
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> * Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-06-20
>
> > $ rm f? -- Remove all files, whose name start with f and
> >followed by single char.
> >
> > $ rm f* -- Remove all files, whose name starting with f.
>
> It would be better
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:09 -0400, Arun Velusamy wrote:
>
>
> >see here a nice video what "sudo rm -rf /' does.
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ
>
Thanks for that! I loved the fact that the kitty's life was at stake,
but the music was in bad taste
It's as I suspected, a lot
* Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-06-20
> $ rm f? -- Remove all files, whose name start with f and
>followed by single char.
>
> $ rm f* -- Remove all files, whose name starting with f.
It would be better if you indicated that wildcard expansion is done by the
shell, an
* Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-06-20
> One Day One GNU/Linux Command
> =
>
> rm -- ReMove files or directories.
Safety precautions:
Do not modify the behavior of "rm" with the same name. Use a different name
instead. If one gets used to a safe "rm", o
I have an alias in my .bashrc ...
alias rm = "mv -t ~/.Trash/"
Of Course, you have to remember a different set of options.. eg. -rf wont
work... It moves directories implicitly..
And yeah.. When you feel the size has exceeded a certain limit, you can
delete it with /usr/bin/rm -r ~/.Trash/*
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On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote:
> You forgot this,
>
>rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your
> life
>
> DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
Actually, if you install "safe-rm" then you may be safe!
This package just recently entered Debian un
On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote:
> yeah - i recall of an incident where a DBA tried rm -rf
> /$ORACLE_HOME and the variable was not set :) - the rest is history
> :)
ouch! Isn't $ORACLE_HOME a full path name akin to $HOME?
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>see here a nice video what "sudo rm -rf /' does.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ
Interesting one...
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Seriously, has anyone tried it? I suspect after enough damage like
removal of shared libraries rm might start complaining about not
finding "stuff" it needs to do it's job.
I did it once (as a root, on /) on my redhat machine, when i was a trainee.
After 10-15 sec i realized what i did and
>
> rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your life
>
> DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
>
see here a nice video what "sudo rm -rf /' does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote:
>
> > You forgot this,
> >
> >rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your
> > life
> >
> > DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
>
> Darn! you be
Hello,
Apropos "rm -rf /".
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> Seriously, has anyone tried it?
I recall doing this once with user-mode-linux but didn't record the
session. You may want to try it with u-m-l or with qemu. It hurts
less when you play in the sand. :-)
It should manage to "go th
On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote:
> You forgot this,
>
>rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your
> life
>
> DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
Darn! you beat me to it :)
Seriously, has anyone tried it? I suspect after enough damage like
remo
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sudharshan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your life
>
> DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
One of the system admins in my earlier jobs instead of running
# rm -rf basedir/subdir
execu
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One Day One GNU/Linux Command
> =
>
> rm -- ReMove files or directories.
>
> Summary :
>
> rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove directories.
>
>
You forgot thi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One Day One GNU/Linux Command
> =
>
> rm -- ReMove files or directories.
>
> Summary :
>
> rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove
> directories.
>
>
You forgot t
One Day One GNU/Linux Command
=
rm -- ReMove files or directories.
Summary :
rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove
directories.
Examples :
$ rm myfile -- Remove the myfile from current dir.
$ rm f1 f2 f3 -- Remove f1,f2 and f3.
$ rm f? --
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