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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
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I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...
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15-04-2016, 07:16 PM
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15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

You obviously know nothing about linux.

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15-04-2016, 07:17 PM
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15-04-2016, 07:16 PM
A Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

You obviously know nothing about linux.

Quote:I'm not some Linux pro
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15-04-2016, 07:22 PM
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15-04-2016, 07:17 PM
NSA Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:16 PM
A Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

You obviously know nothing about linux.

Quote:I'm not some Linux pro

doesnt take a linux pro to know simple shit like that

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06-05-2016, 10:20 PM
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if this really happened, the company deserves it

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09-05-2016, 07:42 AM
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15-04-2016, 07:16 PM
A Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

You obviously know nothing about linux.

The businessman apparently knew less than NSA, then. I've used Lubuntu, Ubuntu proper, and Linux Mint, and I know not to do rm -rf.

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09-05-2016, 05:08 PM
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09-05-2016, 07:42 AM
homeofthebadguys Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:16 PM
A Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

You obviously know nothing about linux.

The businessman apparently knew less than NSA, then. I've used Lubuntu, Ubuntu proper, and Linux Mint, and I know not to do rm -rf.
rm -rf = cancer Smile

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09-05-2016, 07:33 PM
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15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

Actually I didn't know that Linux is capable of doing so until I erased my HDD accidentally.
But yes, Linux is able to do this, within not few seconds, less than a second, lol

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09-05-2016, 07:43 PM
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09-05-2016, 07:33 PM
AokiDoki Wrote:
15-04-2016, 07:14 PM
NSA Wrote: I'm not some Linux pro so I might just be talking pure cancer but surely the command could have been canceled as surely there was no way it deleted over 1000 clients data and backups in a few seconds...

Actually I didn't know that Linux is capable of doing so until I erased my HDD accidentally.
But yes, Linux is able to do this, within not few seconds, less than a second, lol

And thus I have concluded that windows is better.
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09-05-2016, 07:44 PM
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A command is only as dangerous as the idiot running it. rm should also ask for an additional flag when told to delete recursively in / (--no-preserve-root)
It's still recommended to edit the function of rm so it dumps files into a trash bin instead, but again only idiots need to do this.

I also read somewhere that this is fake.

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