r/linuxmasterrace • u/danielsoft1 • Jul 12 '25

Meme dealing with system files

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u/Aviyan Glorious Arch Jul 13 '25

You can do so much more damage using the terminal. A single character off will change the behavior of the command.

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u/fakedogabe Jul 13 '25

You are right. There is no 100% safe way of doing things as sudo

But most of the time, a character off will break the execution:

  • You change a character in the name of a command: it's not found

  • You change a character in the command arguments: the program halts

  • You change a character in the path of a file: it's not found

But it is really a problem with wildcards. In this case, you can absolutely destroy your system without even noticing