• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Too many people got trolled into “removing the French language pack” on Linux systems that there’s now a check to see if someone is deleting every file off their computer (including the os system files). --no-preserve-root is the option you need to include to actually delete all the files off your system.

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        depending on your shell, i believe the glob is expanded before it gets to the rm program