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Fedora has the following aliases in the root .bashrc. alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i'

• rpigab 9mo ago
  It's a nice addition for certain use cases, however in the case of running "rm -rf ...", it has no effect because of the "-f / --force" flag set afterwards. "rm -if" never prompts, "rm -fi" prompts. --preserve-root is an entirely different thing which will stop the command from deleting files even if you told it to. $ sudo rm -ri / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/' rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe When in doubt, you might want to activate xtrace with "set -x", run the command and see what it expanded to. then "set +x" to disable.
  • zahlman 9mo ago
    "It is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'" is such a stereotypically traditional Linux way to explain the situation. (I would write something like "Refusing to delete the entire filesystem (did a shell variable expansion go wrong?)".)
    • Linux-Fan 9mo ago
      Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/293/ https://xkcd.com/293/
    • rpigab 9mo ago
      There's worse: "Out of memory: Kill process or sacrifice child"