Typing rm -rf /* In Ubuntu

[BlueKewne]

should have at least used "v" or "verbose" to have the terminal echo what was being deleted

[Megadoomable]

.........

[Windows7Laptop]

Hey Alex, I made a video doing this on Ubuntu 10.04, you can watch it... it does excactly the same thing. I used it on VMWare Workstation 7 for PC.

[superriku11]

Can I do this in Ubuntu running in Virtual Box too without messing up my Virtual Box or Macbook?

[macheads101]

Yes, but it will delete everything on that virual machine.

[frywater]

It's pronounced "ooh-BOON-2" as in car"TOON" or Daniel "BOONE" not bun.

[macheads101]

Sorry for miss pronouncing it. I have an american accent.

[frywater]

^mispronouncing

That's no excuse mister.

[BHtechnology]

no its not what are you talking about

[FullyLoaded66]

terminal deleted itself

[macheads101]

Haha yeah accept that rm deleted terminal, and itself. Not terminal, terminal wasn't doing anything but running RM and piping it's input and output.

[Btroisi13]

NICE! ha ha this is funny. I also liked how you took the time to set it up and stuff. Does this work on UNIX or OS X? (Not gonna try it :P)

[macheads101]

Yeah, 'rm -rf /' works on mac yeah. And I am not sure for unix but I know that 'rm -rf /*' will always work.

[elviskrstulovic]

But you do have to enter sudo to do this right?

Meaning you cant really trick someone into running thic command unknowingly?!?

Like if you try to make it executable and change the icon of it ? It is still going to prompt for a password?

[macheads101]

Yes,

[jodirt2k7]

What did program did you use to make your video?

[macheads101]

ScreenFlow.

[superriku11]

Screenflow

[jaspers22]

-_-

[3giphoneuser]

wow@@@@@@@@@@@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jamesjakejohn]

whats the code in windows

[HackerTHATSME]

Delete System32

[jamesjakejohn]

thanks

[MirekMateju]

format c:

[mrpowersfan01]

so ubuntu sucks? XD

[grayfox106]

haha that was cool

[IMPMAC]

wow

[macheads101]

Yeah exactly.