It's a unix thing...
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent[^] Worked with unix a long time. As soon as you start typing rm -rf..... you should remove your hands from the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Ahem. It's in the insider news page already.
This space for rent
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent[^] Worked with unix a long time. As soon as you start typing rm -rf..... you should remove your hands from the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has this been confirmed? The lack of a company name, and the fact that it appears to be based entirely based on a discussion in a chatroom, make it look like a prank.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Has this been confirmed? The lack of a company name, and the fact that it appears to be based entirely based on a discussion in a chatroom, make it look like a prank.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
You know, I searched the lounge, not the insider. I shall now go to the woodshed for my beating :). Confirmed for this guy? No idea. I do know that all of the unix guys I worked with mapped the rm command to a shell script. Normally, the prompt would be something like "Are you really sure you want to do this?" :) I've seen guys wipe the wrong folders. That damn command is fast, no time taken to calculate how long things will take.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Has this been confirmed? The lack of a company name, and the fact that it appears to be based entirely based on a discussion in a chatroom, make it look like a prank.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Search the Help Wanted ads. If he's there, it's confirmed.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent[^] Worked with unix a long time. As soon as you start typing rm -rf..... you should remove your hands from the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Nothing wrong with "rm -rf" at all if you know what you are doing and paying attention. Unix/Linux does not try to baby you like Windows does, so you have to be careful as root.
Chainsaw with no chain brake. Comes with a big boy warranty, I agree.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent[^] Worked with unix a long time. As soon as you start typing rm -rf..... you should remove your hands from the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
The first question that came to my mind was, "what, no recycle bin with an undo option"? Oh yeah, it's Linux. X| Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
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The first question that came to my mind was, "what, no recycle bin with an undo option"? Oh yeah, it's Linux. X| Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
You only do it once. :sigh:
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code | News | Lifestyle | The Independent[^] Worked with unix a long time. As soon as you start typing rm -rf..... you should remove your hands from the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
typing rm -rf
We have 20+ options for VMs, partial VMs (like docker) and chroot.
rm -rfcould be safe. -
The first question that came to my mind was, "what, no recycle bin with an undo option"? Oh yeah, it's Linux. X| Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
I have to wonder what would happen using the rm command in the new bash shell in Windows 10 Anyone want to try and report back? :laugh: