Rule for BeginnersWugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 643 points – 9 months agocross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14479799 Linux Best Practices 61Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsImagine the typo sudo rm -rf /The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -frok...that is in fact the jokeNot quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️What do you think this means?force delete recursiveI just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.
Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -frok...that is in fact the jokeNot quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️What do you think this means?force delete recursiveI just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.
...that is in fact the jokeNot quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️
Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️
What do you think this means?force delete recursiveI just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.
force delete recursiveI just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.
Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /
The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr
ok
...that is in fact the joke
Not quite, flags don't care about the order they are in.
That's exactly why that is the joke omg lol 🤦♀️
What do you think this means?
force delete recursive
I just don't understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.