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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)
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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Never create a file named "-rf *" unless you really plan on keeping it.

[–] dwt@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children) 
rm ./—rf\ \*

Am I missing something?

[–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm not going to try it but... rm "./-rf *" would do the same? rm "./-rf \*" maybe?

[–] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

If you do want to try, just start a docker container and try inside there. That should negate all risk

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