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minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 days agoisn’t the command meant to be used on a certain path? like if you just graduated high school, you can just run “rm -rf ~/documents/homework/” ?
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-28 days agoCorrect me if im wrong, i assume switch “-rf” is short for “Root File”, for the starting point of recursion
minus-squareJrockwar@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up18·8 days agoNo, -r and -f are two different switches. -r is recursive, used so that it also removes folders within the directory. -f is force (so overriding all confirmations, etc).
isn’t the command meant to be used on a certain path? like if you just graduated high school, you can just run “rm -rf ~/documents/homework/” ?
Correct me if im wrong, i assume switch “-rf” is short for “Root File”, for the starting point of recursion
No, -r and -f are two different switches. -r is recursive, used so that it also removes folders within the directory. -f is force (so overriding all confirmations, etc).
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