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Another neat side effect of this is that you can remove a file that you don't own, so long as it's in a directory that you do. rm prompts to confirm by default,
by bscphil 9y ago
Another neat side effect of this is that you can remove a file that you don't own, so long as it's in a directory that you do. rm prompts to confirm by default, but it's intuitively surprising that can delete a root-owned file that you have no read or write permissions to.