The followup discussion sounded doubtful, and the author is probably
thinking of very old GCOS systems, where rm really could mean rm * for
the (temp) files in your login session.
--dave
On 15/04/16 12:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Stephen <[email protected]>
|
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn
About "rm -rf", the article says:
The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or
computer, but because this code didn't have a specified
target, it deleted everything.
This isn't true of the rm(1) command. No operand means delete nothing.
The story does not ring true for other reasons. But it could be.
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