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

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...

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.

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

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

if this really happened, the company deserves it

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.

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

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

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.

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.