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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The question is:

  what happens when you give the command in the command line rm -rf ?

  rm -rf * or here rm -rf test are different commands.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They are literally not different commands, as “test” is an required argument which out the command won’t work.

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, the argument is not required, the command is valid. It’s intentional and a neat feature that rm -rf alone without a specified file does nothing.

      See e.g.: unix.stackexchange.com/a/553741

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It does nothing because you used the wrong syntax but also set the flag the suppresses the out put of syntax errors …

        Imagine someone would asked “What does a toaster do?”

        I say “It toasts bread”.

        You come in with a picture of bread in a toaster and say “It does nothing”.

        I tell you “You have to press the button”.

        "You say “oh well, that wasn’t the question, a toaster with the button pressed is basically a different device!”

        Insert <Futurama not sure if trolling …> meme.

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