Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms including "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything like DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour first-hand a few years ago). On 15 Apr 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com>
| http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-...
About "rm -rf", the article says:
The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or computer, but because this code didn't have a specified target, it deleted everything.
This isn't true of the rm(1) command. No operand means delete nothing.
The story does not ring true for other reasons. But it could be. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk