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    [–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 104 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.

    [–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    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 /*

    [–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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?

    [–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    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 targeting C:.

    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 tells rm 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.

    [–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!

    Thank you, kind person.

    [–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Or the less destructive, "Press Alt+F4 to triforce."

    [–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real

    [–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    As long as it removes French it’s worth it.

    [–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

    I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.

    [–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

    Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.

    [–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

    You had one task...