Reply to: Admin "accidentally" removes CUK poster with one line of code

[vetran]

You must be a leftie liberal with a fanatical hate of Britain and all Muslims/immigrants should be deported

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

[darmstadt]

Oh Dear.....

You must be a leftie liberal with a fanatical hate of Britain and all Muslims/immigrants should be deported

[vetran]

Imagine if it was rm -Rf bigots, this place would be

A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions:
don’t let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city
he was a fanatical bigot

Oh Dear.....

[fullyautomatix]

Is he gone ? Its hard to tell, he goes and comes back and I do not want to waste my time giving a farewell speech.

[BrilloPad]

Quitter!

History has proved otherwise. Alas.

[unixman]

It is whispered by some be-cardiganed, bearded, Polyvelt-shod, device-driver-writing, Al Stewart listening unix wizards, after 2 or 3 real ales,that rm -rf doesn't work in /, that there is some mysterious handbrake built into the kernel or somewhere, that kicks in to save you at the last moment. IIRC this is just in Linux, not Solaris or other Unixes. Or both. Or was a relatively recent invention. Or may not exist. I prefer to leave the truth undiscovered, a mystery, sort of like the Loch Ness monster. Which definitely exists.

[NickFitz]

Another thing in Unixland, which is case sensitive, bout rm -rf and rm -Rf work.....

But it's documented on the man page, as it's specific to that command rather than being a generic thing:

-R          Attempt to remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file argument.
                 The -R option implies the -d option.  If the -i option is speci-
                 fied, the user is prompted for confirmation before each direc-
                 tory's contents are processed (as well as before the attempt is
                 made to remove the directory).  If the user does not respond
                 affirmatively, the file hierarchy rooted in that directory is
                 skipped.

-r          Equivalent to -R.

[stek]

Imagine if it was rm -Rf bigots, this place would be

Another thing in Unixland, which is case sensitive, bout rm -rf and rm -Rf work.....

[darmstadt]

Imagine if it was rm -Rf bigots, this place would be

[administrator]

Quitter!

[AtW]

I'll be back...

[sasguru]

[sasguru]

Command.

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