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Uploaded by on May 8, 2009

I show you me screwing over my ubuntu computer.

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

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

  • terminal deleted itself

  • 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.

  • 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)

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

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

  • .........

  • 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.

  • no its not what are you talking about

  • format c:

  • Screenflow

  • ^mispronouncing

    That's no excuse mister.

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