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lol sudo rm -rf / (feddit.de)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Something something rm -fr / to remove the french language pack

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

and rm -rf removes only the République française language pack

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

other ""french"" species are inferior and don't deserve mention

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

honestly I’ve had the best luck when I use the French Riviera version to delete my hard drive:

rm -Riv /

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Tabarnac.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

rm -fr /*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

newer versions of coreutils require --no-preserve-root on /* too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Also you don't want to preserve the word roots of it so you have to add --no-preserve-root

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's the only one I find particularly funny, the rest are just ok