Actually its other way around
find new job
cd /
rm -rf *
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Thanks everyone got that! Now let me see,
> cd /
> rm -rf *
> find new job :-)
>
> Actually had a friend that on his first day in tech support, did do a
> deltree in the root directory of the bosses computer! Fortunately they did
> have data backups. I think he did it at about 2pm and went home about 3am
> and was back at work looking like nothing had happened at 8am the next day.
> Since this was a fresh install of everything, the system actually ran
> better, no fragmented files etc. The boss, unaware of the process, thanked
> him for 'tuning up' his system.
>
> At 08:28 22/02/2001, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove
> >folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a
> >Windows system, generally goes like:
> >cd /
> >deltree *
> >Oh S***T!!!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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