16 Apr
2016
16 Apr
'16
9:39 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:47:49 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
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.
What they actually showed was "RM-RF", completely harmless, at least until Linux includes a retaliation feature that punishes people for typing in invalid commands. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson