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				That's why I always type it without any flags at first. What if you accidentally hit "enter"?
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				@Alkotronikk correct... that was interesting. i aldo tried to reboot the server to see of everything was ok. it was not
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abhn4758yI feel you. Did that on my vps that hosted a techblog with 100+ articles. No backups ;_; - 
				
				
jerodev5568yI really need to try this in a sandbox environment. I never believed that actually works. - 
				
				it does ... i hit ^c when i realized what i have done, so i don't know what happens at the end( or after removing the rm command). if you try it, share the results, please @jerodev
 

always double check your rm -rf command...
long ago, young me was setting up a server. last thing was to remove a temp folder i created. instead of rm -rf /path/to/dir, i typed rm -rf / path/to/dir...
"this should not take so long...wait... shit"
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