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    [–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    All I see is *******