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		aidanhs on Nov 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rust community's crate host Never thought about this, interesting question. You can try this equivalent, killing the server when it tells you to - https://gist.github.com/aidanhs/e40417381e9aecb87b35. It prints '/', i.e. would remove your root directory if it was an `rm` command. Won't be doing that again then.

steveklabnik on Nov 20, 2014 [–]

Remember that these days, with GNU rm, you have to pass in `--no-preserve-root` to actually `rm -rf /`. Attempting to remove something in the home directory and getting a `rm -rf /home/username/` would still be pretty bad.

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