Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms including "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything like DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour first-hand a few years ago).
On 15 Apr 2016 at 12:47, 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. > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
