I was going to ask what to do if i use windows, but then i realize this is Lemmy and that you need a Linux computer to make an account
If you don’t need the French language pack, you can remove it with “sudo rm -fr /*”.
No that only reduces disk space which only really mattered for hard drives.
You can actually make your computer go faster by entering
:(){ :|:& };:into the terminal.It’ll tell Linux to max out the CPU performance.
> sudo rm -rf /* Remove-Item: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'rf'.later unixtards
Does powershell have sudo? What does that do on windows, show a uac prompt or something?
It’s available here: https://github.com/microsoft/sudo
It does now, since February this year. And yes it does show an auc prompt.
Heh, inferior system keeps copying.
Microsoft realized they were losing basically the entire software development market to Linux so they started adding features like a pretty alright terminal emulator and a shell that almost looks POSIXcompliant if you squint (and don’t pass any flags to its built in commands) and trying ineffectually to hide the fact that they were basically on their knees saying BLEASE COME BACK WE NEED YOU
unix-like and windows is like chromium and firefox (ladybird coming soon!)
Never create a file named “-rf *” unless you really plan on keeping it.
I’ve been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn’t know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.
I didn’t believe ‘*’ is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it’s insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.
Just use double backslashes for each backslash
You wouldn’t download
/boot, would you?Basically
Obscure
Optimal
Trojan
Remove it now
Thank you. My entire OS was so bloated now I have so much performance to spear.
spear from RAIN WORLD???
Does this really work? Wouldn’t
rmremove itself in/binearly in the process?I think it would continue even after it’s own deletion as the binary is already loaded into memory, so process is not dependent on the file system. Still doubt that it’ll complete successfully. Most likely the system crashes in the middle.
as the binary is already loaded into memory
That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to
rm.I thought - - no-preserve root also needed to be added as an argument for self destruct to completely work.
Yes, though you could also do
rm -rf /*afaik to not need--no-preserve-rootEdit: I just realized that the
*is already in the meme. So this should already work as is. Alternatively you could always use the good old way of “act now and remove all French roots of your system:rm -fr / --no-preserve-root”i dont get why you can’t just do
sudo rm -fr /because it won’t let you do that:
elvith@testvm:~$ sudo rm -fr /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
rm doesn’t remove memory in RAM
That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to
rm.
Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far. But at some point the system wants to load a file that is deleted and the kernel will panic. System crash. Delete incomplete. But rest assured, the important stuff is gone.
Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far
Go on then … try it.
Or don’t because you will erase your system. (Hint: it’s in the asterisk)
Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don’t care enough.
The flag is called
--no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn’t do anything here because you’re not deleting root (/), you’re deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.
