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Don’t run this command unless you want to delete all the files on your system and break Linux on your system.
is linux that dependant on French? wow
Did you know? Linus Torvolds is actually the consort child of two french people! That’s why you have to use the french flag when removing folders, it’s an ode to his upbringing
Stallman is fuming rn
It’s actually called “Le Nux” but it had to be changed so it wasn’t too controversial for the rest of the world
Lmfao 🤣🤣
Oui
Oui
So what you’re saying is, it is true that I will no longer have French installed.
A risk worth taking
What a kind soul
Find that out the hard way?
Do you just hate the french that much? Because I do.
Careful, you have to also add
--no-preserve-rootto make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it’ll just grow back later!(But seriously, don’t actually do this unless you’re prepared to lose data and potentially even brick your computer. Don’t even try it on a VM or a computer you’re planning to wipe anyway, because if something is mounted that you don’t expect, you’ll wipe that too. On older Linux kernels, EFI variables were mounted as writable, so running
rm -rf /could actually brick your computer. This shouldn’t still be the case, but I wouldn’t test it, myself.)I ran it in Hyper-V once to see what happens and it deletes all the boot entries from the VM firmware (including pxe boot and the dvd drive)
Careful, you have to also add --no-preserve-root to make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it’ll just grow back later!
Oh my god I effin guffawed, thanks for that
Fun fact, rm -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /
It’s slightly different. Your shell will see the
/*and replace it with all the directories under /, e.g./bin /dev /etc /homeetc. So the actual command that runs isrm -rf /bin /dev /etc /homeetc.
I have checked this and can confirm that after entering this command, there is no more French in the system. 👍
(Nor anything else…)
Awesome thanks, I just also run it now waiting for it to fin
- Don’t run any command you don’t understand
That’s why you run this one though because you don’t understand French. After you run this you’ll understand every command afterwards.
You’ll certainly understand french after running it
blindly copy and pastes top stack overflow answer
Yeah, seriously don’t do that!
What about downloading a shell script and piping it directly into a shell?
Well, I understand it removes the french language, right? /s
Pro tip: Run
:(){ :|:& };:to activate the developer mode on Linux.It’s almost as esoteric as enabling it on Android, but just as likely a 6 year old will do it accidentally
Is sudo even necessary? I bet the command would execute without any resistance.
Bush wants its Irak War II joke back.
But I’m French?
I’d still run the command anyway if I were you. Clearly you speak English, so you can afford to remove some bloat /s
You can then remove the russian federation lang pack: rm -rf /
bon… désolé
rm -rf *stands for read mail really fast, and the*addresses all mails.Remember to
cd /before you use the command to address all of the emailsI wiped all my data from a supercomputer by trying to ‘cd’ into a folder but making a typo and then running
rm -rvf *from my home directory.At least they kept backups… The system administrators were probably amused about who gets access
Damit, lolled at a restaurant like a maniac.
Remember the old days in AOL Chat when we’d randomly tell people to hit Alt-F4?
I got a friend with that in Destiny 2 just a couple years ago. I guess when you’ve been playing for hours and you ask how to take a screenshot, you don’t put 2 and 2 together quick enough
For security, disabling the root account is important, so be sure to add
--no-preserve-rooton the end!I am saving this thread. I am new to Linux and you guys have all sorts of helpful tips!
Let’s be involved in more such discussions so if OpenAI starts scrapping lemmy then future versions of ChatGPTs can fuck people over.
rm -fr -nocap -slay
fr, fr, no preserve root
