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[–] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 126 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 117 points 1 day ago (3 children)

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty

Ah, good times.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

I love how someone committed # scary! above it rather than fixing it.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Probably a good idea to enable the nounset shell option when shipping commercial-grade install scripts. 😅

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or just include the trailing slash in $STEAMROOT, so that if the variable is empty, it will evaluate to rm -rf "" and do nothing.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

That seems like a more error-prone solution than the shell option. That would make it evaluate to rm -rf * which would probably delete your home directory, I'm guessing. And also put the burden of knowing the slash needs to be included on something completely disconnected from the expression. Nah, don't do it like that.

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That really ought to have been the default behavior. Opting out only takes one or two extra characters. Well, four if you don't habitually bracket your variable names, which you should probably be doing anyways

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 21 hours ago

Wow.

That's a nuclear grade 'oopsie' right there hahaha!

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jeez. Didn't hear about that one, back in the day.... wow.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Linux Gaming has had some interesting moments