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Actually, the most stupid mistake is to type the following as root:

rm -rf /

laie_techie Wrote:Actually, the most stupid mistake is to type the following as root:

rm -rf /

Hmm... I wonder what that does?

* Ryan Gordon types it in.... S***

LOL kidding

Tikitiki Wrote:

laie_techie Wrote:Actually, the most stupid mistake is to type the following as root:

rm -rf /

Hmm... I wonder what that does?

* Tikitiki types it in.... S***

LOL kidding

That would earn you a spot on WorseThanFailure.com! lol

What would it do?

destroyer Wrote:What would it do?

Delete everything in your current directory and all subfolders/files. ^_^
Basically, bad.

I expected something like that.. but I never have been a root admin.

Actually, the root of the entire file system was specified, so it would trash your entire hard drive (or at least the partitions that were mounted).

rh1n0 Wrote:

destroyer Wrote:What would it do?

Delete everything in your current directory and all subfolders/files. ^_^
Basically, bad.

That code also makes you right bad checks....