<div dir="ltr">Seems like it was all a hoax. <a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/16/1646212/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax">https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/16/1646212/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax</a><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Paul King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sciguy@vex.net" target="_blank">sciguy@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms<br>
including  "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything like<br>
DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as<br>
DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour first-hand<br>
a few years ago).<br>
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On 15 Apr 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:<br>
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> | From: Stephen <<a href="mailto:stephen-d@rogers.com">stephen-d@rogers.com</a>><br>
><br>
> | <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn</a><br>
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> About "rm -rf", the article says:<br>
><br>
>       The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or<br>
>       computer, but because this code didn't have a specified<br>
>       target, it deleted everything.<br>
><br>
> This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.<br>
><br>
> The story does not ring true for other reasons.  But it could be.<br>
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