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by jasonj79 3679 days ago
Neat idea, but defaulting to recursive force mode (-rf) is frankly a bit scary (and irresponsible). A great way to accidentally shoot your own foot off after you've put it through a meat grinder.

I pity the fool that tries to use this programmatically with a unset or null var, eg.

  skrub /$imfucked
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If you're going to do it in a script you'll need to set those flags anyway, won't you?