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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

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 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 month ago

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 month ago

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

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

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

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

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