Seems like it was all a hoax. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/16/1646212/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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