to be really honest rm is the sketchiest command on Linux for me. I'm always double checking if it is really what I want to be doing.

sudo rm -rf /

...
BOOM !

dd is another cunt to look out for

@JoshBent

Disk destroyer

@bahua hahahaha great one, thanks

in .bashrc, alias rm='rm -i'

@rantOverflow

rm isn't part of bash. It's part of the GNU coreutils.

@rantOverflow

Sure, but your advice is for people to learn bash, when what I suspect you really meant was that people should make an effort to learn the basic concepts behind using the command line.

@bahua To be technically pedantic the shell does the globbing, so you need to be familiar with both.

@bootleg-dev

I never said that it's not a good idea to familiarize yourself with whatever shell you're using.

@rantOverflow I feel you missed the point and started a rant about absolutely nothing

C'mon dude , you never second guessed? even when you where dealing with that server that would be a bitch to get the files from the backup?

It's not about not knowing what it does, it's about the trouble if you make a mistake

I wish rm had a recycle bin in case I didn't mean to rm...