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minus-squarestupidcasey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoI was trying to sudo rm -rf ./ Once and missed the / so I just used rm -rf . And this was before they added --no-preserve-root as a default so it just ripped through my entire drive.
minus-squarebeegnyoshi@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agosudo rm -rf ./ and sudo rm -rf . are, as far as I know, the same command. Did you mean that you dropped the . and ran sudo rm -rf /? Fortunately for me, this never happened to me, but I have gotten pretty close to running rm -rf ~ after mistakenly creating a directory caller ~…
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago after mistakenly creating a directory caller ~… How do you even delete such a directory?
I was trying to sudo rm -rf ./ Once and missed the / so I just used rm -rf . And this was before they added --no-preserve-root as a default so it just ripped through my entire drive.
sudo rm -rf ./andsudo rm -rf .are, as far as I know, the same command. Did you mean that you dropped the . and ransudo rm -rf /?Fortunately for me, this never happened to me, but I have gotten pretty close to running
rm -rf ~after mistakenly creating a directory caller~…This is why i find rmdir useful.
How do you even delete such a directory?
rmdir ./~
That makes sense.