--no-preserve-root is a security option to keep you from accidentally removing all your files. Make sure you always use it along side the ‘-f’ option and ‘-r’ which stands for rescue - meaning rm will create a rescue copy of the deleted data.
Some poor soul is going to take this to the bank and have a horrible day. You could have at least told them to use the -p flag to protect any critical system files from being removed.
--no-preserve-rootis a security option to keep you from accidentally removing all your files. Make sure you always use it along side the ‘-f’ option and ‘-r’ which stands for rescue - meaning rm will create a rescue copy of the deleted data.It means No! Preserve Root.
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/means ‘working directory only’, a security feature to prevent accidently using absolute paths.Really clever
Use
sudobeforermto improve efficiency.Sudo is short for “super do”, which means “do this at super speed”
I’m very new to Linux; could you explain what this does for me?
Some poor soul is going to take this to the bank and have a horrible day. You could have at least told them to use the -p flag to protect any critical system files from being removed.