[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:47:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> About "rm -rf", the article says:
> 
> 	The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or
> 	computer, but because this code didn't have a specified
> 	target, it deleted everything.
> 
> This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.
> 
> The story does not ring true for other reasons.  But it could be.

It is written wrong.  Elsewhere it explained that it was rm -rf
${foo}/${bar} with both environment variables empty which hence means
rm -rf /

So yes, far from empty arguments to rm.  Empty environment variables.

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Len Sorensen