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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Ruscal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

The trick is that you loose access to every file on the system. chmod is also a file. And ls. And sudo. You see where it's going. System will kinda work after this command, but rebooting (which by a coincidence is a common action for "fixing" things) will reveal that system is dead.

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