On Monday 10 June 2013 18:20:44 Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Linda Walsh wrote: > >> Point taken, but the only way such a string would be passed as a > >> variable name is if it was given as user input -- which would, > >> presumably, be sanitized before being used. Programming it literally > >> makes as much sense as 'rm -rf /'. > > > > --- > > > > That still didn't POSIX-Gnu rm from disabling that ability. > > Did they? I'm not going to test it :(
do it as non-root: $ rm -rf / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/' rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe -mike
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