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rm -fr forces recursion, which is what you want.
rm -rf recursively forces, which makes no sense and is only used by Hitler-equivalent unix admins who think emacs is a legitimate editor.
Wed Feb 07 2018 12:55:40 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensoredrm -fr forces recursion, which is what you want.
rm -rf recursively forces, which makes no sense and is only used by Hitler-equivalent unix admins who think emacs is a legitimate editor.
That's not how this works. LOL
This is sort of a long-running joke. When Ragnar and I first met some 17 years ago, we quickly realized that we had similar outlooks and approaches on most technology-related topics. So we manufactured something really trivial and stupid to have extremely hostile arguments about. The order of the "f" and "r" flags to rm(1) to recursively delete a directory became that argument.
It turns out that he'd been doing it the wrong way (rm -rf) all that time, and to this day he stubbornly refuses to use the correct incantation (rm -fr) even after having been told numerous times. Some people never learn.
Subject: 2017 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Results
For anyone who cares ... linuxquestions.org did a poll to see what software is popular in the Linux world this year. Here are the results:
[ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2017mca.php ]
Some of the highlights:
* Ubuntu, Slackware, and Mint are the most popular desktop distributions
* MariaDB is now twice as popular as MySQL ... not surprising, considering Oracle is (unsurprisingly) getting stupid with the licensing
* Firefox is the overwhelmingly favorite browser.
* KDE is the favorite desktop, followed closely by Xfce. GNOME seems to have fragmented.
* VLC dominates both audio and video playback.
* vi and vim win the text editor category. Even lightweight editors like nano and kate are more popular than emacs.
* Python is still the favorite programming language.
No big surprises here, I guess.
I've heard this assertion concerning Go, although not Rust.
Although, I haven't had my ear as close to the cacaphony as perhaps I should.
At the end of the day, I don't generally care about the language requirements... I'll work with whatever. Although, I might draw the line at Perl. A line that looks suspiciously like:
#)%(*#&)*#$*@#%)*&#%)@*@#&)$*#*%)(%^*(*#)$*@#)$
The first time I learned those options, it was some 35 years ago when I was reading some of the internal scripts that came with Xenix. One of them used "rm -fir" to remove an entire directory and its contents. Needless to say, "f" and "i" aren't supposed to be used together, because they specify opposite things. Leave it to Microsoft to be brilliant that way, I guess.
Ah, the good old days, when Xenix was supposedly the future of mainstream microcomputing...
Tue Feb 20 2018 16:54:48 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredUmm ... yeah. That will delete most files, but a few email clients will be left behind. pine and elm binaries, in particular, do *not* respond to "rm -fir"
I would have thought that pine, of all of them, would be especially responsive to that command.