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    Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)
    submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Never create a file named "-rf *" unless you really plan on keeping it.

    [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

    Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that?

    It's backslashes all the way down

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

    Just use double backslashes for each backslash

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