Re: [NTLK] root on OSX

From: John Acuff (jacuff1_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 01:11:20 PDT


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Matthew Robinson wrote:

> the whole world is waiting for you to type
>
> rm -rf /
>
> and bury your head in your hands...
>
> M :-)
>

I gather this is a "Bad Thing"? For the benefit of us non-Unix heads,
what exactly does this do? My guess is that it does something really
nasty to your hard drive.........
John

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