General_Effort@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 day agoI know just the audience for thislemmy.worldimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up11.05Kcross-posted to: nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11.05KimageI know just the audience for thislemmy.worldGeneral_Effort@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square64fedilinkcross-posted to: nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·17 hours agoisn’t the command meant to be used on a certain path? like if you just graduated high school, you can just run “rm -rf ~/documents/homework/” ?
minus-squareZorsithlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-213 hours agoCorrect me if im wrong, i assume switch “-rf” is short for “Root File”, for the starting point of recursion
minus-squareJrockwar@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up13·13 hours agoNo, -r and -f are two different switches. -r is recursive, used so that it also removes folders within the directory. -f is force (so overriding all confirmations, etc).
isn’t the command meant to be used on a certain path? like if you just graduated high school, you can just run “rm -rf ~/documents/homework/” ?
Correct me if im wrong, i assume switch “-rf” is short for “Root File”, for the starting point of recursion
No, -r and -f are two different switches. -r is recursive, used so that it also removes folders within the directory. -f is force (so overriding all confirmations, etc).
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