Linux. The joke is that a person once sunk their entire business because they intended to run that command on a folder to nuke it and forgot to specify which folder so it just ran on the root, deleting every single file on the computer's network, including the backup. It's supposed to be really hard to do but because of the combination of little negligences, it ended up happening in a single command.
Why did he have to call the Superuser? Why did he tell the command to force? Why did he suppress warnings? These aren't things you're supposed to do if you're responsible.
SUDO is "super-user do" or another way of saying "for this command only, give me the ultimate permission to do whatever I want"
RM means remove, the command you're using
the line are your modifiers (args) which give the command context
r means recursively (do it on every folder and every folder within that folder)
f is force: do it even if something bad would happen
star means ignore warnings, so if something would do something bad, don't tell me about it, just do it.
This sounds way over my head, this is windows right?
Linux. The joke is that a person once sunk their entire business because they intended to run that command on a folder to nuke it and forgot to specify which folder so it just ran on the root, deleting every single file on the computer's network, including the backup. It's supposed to be really hard to do but because of the combination of little negligences, it ended up happening in a single command.
Why did he have to call the Superuser? Why did he tell the command to force? Why did he suppress warnings? These aren't things you're supposed to do if you're responsible.