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[Tim Curtis]

You ask what makes dangerous.  I think I qualified when on my first day in a new job I did something like this:

Code:

idiot@host:> pwd
/opt/bin
idiot@host:> ls /var/log
file1 file2 file3

Ah that's all garbage I thought, next thing:

Code:

idiot@host:> rm -rf

Oh dear....

Oops. You'd have to earn a top of attaboys to make up for that one if it was a shared system 


If it was a solo system you might get away with claiming a corrupt file system forced you to reformat the disk. That wasn't an uncommon event in the good old days.

Regards,
Kent

Thankfully it was a cluster, so I managed to copy it back from another node...

For sure rm -rf is the most deadly Linux command. It's super convenient, used all the time and all it takes is a brief lapse in brain function or distraction by the resident house cat to do massive damage :-O