Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code [↗]
The problem command was “rm -rf”: a basic piece of code that will delete everything it is told to. The “rm” tells the computer to remove; the r deletes everything within a given directory; and the f stands for “force”, telling the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files.
Doh!
What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question | corenominal
[…] Fooled me. Doh! Seriously though, I’m not sure how this works as a viral marketing effort, and I have no interest in finding out. The guy is a plank. […]