The followup discussion sounded doubtful, and the author is probably thinking of very old GCOS systems, where rm really could mean rm * for the (temp) files in your login session. --dave On 15/04/16 12:47 PM, 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
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