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Pro tip: Omit the dot
.
before the/
to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a
*
at the end. Final command should look like this:sudo rm -fr /*
So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?
No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:
rm
is the command to delete files and folders-f
is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can-r
is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc./
is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targetingC:
.Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in
--no-preserve-root
, which tellsrm
that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system./*
as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!
Thank you, kind person.
Or the less destructive, "Press Alt+F4 to triforce."
All I see is *******
They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real
I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.
As long as it removes French it’s worth it.
I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.
Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add
--no-preserve-root
for that.You had one task...