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Ironically, coreutils introduced[1] a requirement to add `--no-preserve-root` to `rm -rf /` way back in 2003, so that particular example doesn't really support

• eps 6y ago
  That's because it was abused to troll inexperienced users. "How do I do X? Just run this as root." Sometimes slightly disguised, but more often not.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
    I think the bigger problem is it is not very hard as a power user to unknowingly try to delete /