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by hahamaster 1062 days ago
Decades ago my ex colleague was supposed to enter a command handwritten on a piece of paper saying "rm -rf /var/log/blah/" which she typed in as "rm -rf /var / log/blah / ". Everyone knows it's awesome to insert white space to increase legibility. It was a production database server.
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That’s an insane command to pass to an untrained person on a piece of paper to type into the terminal of a production server.
Agreed. It was "only" supposed to truncate the log folder. ;-)