On 16/04/2016 14:44, Scott Howard wrote:
There was very clearly something wrong with the question from the start.
The command described doesn't actually do what the author suggested (wipe
the entire machine) - in fact, it does nothing but return an error.
# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
#
This functionality was added probably close to 10 years ago, and will be in
every even close-to-current linux distribution now days.
You assume he was using leenux.
A real BSD-based OS would do what you tell it.
-andyf
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