3 ms·I heard somewhere that it should be rm -rf /<star>by colund 12y agoI heard somewhere that it should be rm -rf /<star>vortico 12y agoThe -r enters the directory recursively, so it's the same result.tiddlydum 12y agoNot these days; rm refuses to recurse on root. This can be overridden with --no-preserve-root or by appending a *.