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That one doesn't work on systems which disallow deleting `/` unless you pass `--no-preserve-root`. But `rm -rf `${VARIABLE}/*` still does, and that's what steam

That one doesn't work on systems which disallow deleting `/` unless you pass `--no-preserve-root`. But `rm -rf `${VARIABLE}/*` still does, and that's what steam did.

klysm 7y ago
Seems like --no-preserve-root is poorly implemented if that is allowed.
- FreeFull 7y ago
  Well, once the glob gets expanded by the shell, the `rm` executable sees something like `-rf` `/home` `/usr` `/etc`, and isn't aware that the argument was `/*`
  - klysm 7y ago
    True, but that still doesn't preserve root.