When you do a 'sudo rm -r /*' instead of a 'sudo rm -r ./*' on ubuntu

PS : I just did it :'(

Does that really do anything?

I thought Ubuntu had a "this will delete everything, are you SURE?" Warning

@letmecode well most of my work is on github or on my cloud, so I didn't lost much.

@jimmyscene Well on ubuntu gnome apparently no ^^ I'll see to set the validation message so it doesn't happen in the future again x)

@jirehstudios well i erased my ubuntu as well my windows part, I didn't set security properly aparently ^^

@BorisLaporte Can you back up anything running in RAM? 😂

@BorisLaporte warns for me on Ubuntu Gnome.

Ubuntu normally wouldnt let u du that

Well, at least you didn't delete root. 👍
#thanks"nopreserveroot"

@linuxer4fun @flag0 it just depends on how you have your distro set up. My personal one doesn't prompt, while my university account does.

Ooouuu Remix

@jirehstudios
When you do sudo rm -r /*
You're deleting the root directory and everything in it recursively (the -r option). Though the asterisk isn't really needed in this case due to the -r.

Don't mistake the root directory (/) with the root user home directory. (/root)

@QuantumAtom I know how it works, I just didn't believe that Linux will actually let you do it.

@jirehstudios
Ohh okay. Sorry for the confusion.
But yeah it'll generally let you. Except like people said above, Ubuntu will warn you. I'm sure theres a few other distributions that may warn you as well.

Why not `sudo rm -rf *` ? O.o

@azous

bad habits, don't worry I don't do it any more ^^