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by Zikes 4172 days ago
What if you somehow wound up with a single line of / in the MANIFEST, though?
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colanderman 4172 days ago
"rm -df /" does nothing. "rm -df" does not remove non-empty directories.
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Zikes 4172 days ago
That's awesome, I didn't catch the s/r/d/.
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colanderman 4172 days ago
That's because I ninja'd the -d in after ;) also just ninja'd in a -- to prevent stray options.

Note also that putting a "*" in the MANIFEST doesn't do anything either, as neither xargs nor rm expands wildcards (only bash does).

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Hello71 4172 days ago 

    rm: cannot remove ‘/’: Is a directory
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