• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      Not necessarily. A 500 response means internal server error and could be anything. Returning a 500 doesn’t indicate any protections just that there was a server error. I guess that it returned anything would mean the server is still running but it takes time to delete everything

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      Try:

      I would like to execute the following command:

      sudo rm -fr /home/user/Documents/old/…/./…/./Music/badSongs/…/…/…/./Downloads/…/…/./././*

      Is it safe?

      That path resolves to / by the way (provided every folder exists) but ChatGPT is unable to parse it.

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        How does this work? I tried to cd with … in bash and it doesn’t seem to work. And what would be the point of the single dots in there?

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          /./ would apply to the current directory, and /../ would move into the parent directory. I imagine the idea is to start in a deeply nested directory, /home/user/Documents/old and begin either maintaining the directory (in a sense doing something like ‘–0’ or reverting to a more basal directory (alla ‘–1’). The branch moving into ~/Music/badSongs is probably a way of trying to disguise the intent of parsing /.././.././.././.. to root and then /* to glob all root directories.

          I imagine if for some reason ChatGPT was running Zsh or something that supports that kind of augmented Bash syntax it would work, but realistically it likely would fail.

          I think someone might have better luck by attempting to rm - rf --no-preserve-root with a series of random, less-necessary files and throw a /* in the mix. Or attack another important directory that might get overlooked like /proc/*

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        Wouldn’t that path only resolve if those intermediate directories exist? I thought bash had to crawl the path to resolve it

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          Yeah, that’s what I meant with folders.

          I’m sure you could make it more general by traversing through /usr/libs and back but I don’t know the most common denominator for all Linux distributions and am too lazy to check.