@[email protected] to linuxmemesEnglish • edit-29 months agoAnd that is why snapshots existsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down128file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink35•9 months agoDeleting the current directory via ./ seems contrived since you would just use . or more likely the directory name from outside the directory. What does happen is rm -rf ${FOO}/ while ${FOO} is an empty string.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•9 months agoNot sure if you’re referencing the Steam incident, but Steam did exactly that: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week_steam_cleans_linux_pcs/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•9 months agoEven so, . and / are right next to each other so it’s a likely typo. You might press enter before you catch it.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoThe double check before you rm things 🤷.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoyup, did that one on a server at work. had to go cap in hand to my manager to get him to fix it
Deleting the current directory via
./seems contrived since you would just use.or more likely the directory name from outside the directory. What does happen isrm -rf ${FOO}/while${FOO}is an empty string.Not sure if you’re referencing the Steam incident, but Steam did exactly that: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week_steam_cleans_linux_pcs/
Even so,
.and/are right next to each other so it’s a likely typo. You might press enter before you catch it.The double check before you rm things 🤷.
${Insert meme of qwertz ganz not having that problem here}
yup, did that one on a server at work. had to go cap in hand to my manager to get him to fix it