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GNU rm only catches "/". The Steam issue was for /* which is expanded by the shell.
by AnssiH 8y ago
GNU rm only catches "/". The Steam issue was for /* which is expanded by the shell.
- smhenderson 8y agoThat seemed crazy to me so I spun up a VM, took a snapshot and then ran rm -rf /* as root. Sure enough it started nuking everything it could, skipping over only a few things like most of what's in proc, etc... Thanks, it's was interesting to see the difference!