On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:47:49 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. What they actually showed was "RM-RF", completely harmless, at least until Linux includes a retaliation feature that punishes people for typing in invalid commands. -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
