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[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

I can't believe I've never seen rm -fr instead of rm -rf. "remove for real" is instantly my new method of deleting directories.

[-] vkirlin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been doing -fr like forever. Don't know why

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 3 points 1 year ago

I've been doing -fr like forever. Don't know why

BURN THE HERETIC

[-] vkirlin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just alphabetical order ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] sociablefish@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

rf makes it seem like recurse/force instead of some genz/genalpha shorthand

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