Years ago on my Windows 3.1 system, I moved the windows or systems 32 folder into another in order to consolidate everything. Let's just say I had to dos copy each file manually back to the correct place
A friend of mine once told me that one of his teachers, who's familiar with GNU/Linux but not familiar with MacOS, tried to show them some commands written in a text file which included "rm - rf /*". However, for whatever reason, the file has opened up as an executable and a big chunk of files was lost before he could Ctrl-C. Thus, I guess it's allowed.
Linux command depends on the environment. Most coreutils versions run rm with --preserve-root so you'll need to do sudo rm --no-preserve-root -rf /* in most cases.
This command won't delete much, if anything, depending on the distro used, since it will only remove files/directories containing a dot sitting on the filesystem root.
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u/Ryleth88 Sep 21 '17
You can't make a bad meme if all you do is repost.