ByteJunk comments on How 'chmod 777' looks at me when I get a permission error while trying to wrap things up at 2 a.m

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I assume he wanted " ./ " but missed the dot?

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I did that with an "rm - rf" once. It was back in the olden days where we mounted all systems root via nfs. Oh abd nfs use to transfer root privileges.

Took out 1.5 machines before I thought, this is taking a while.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Do you people not get super paranoid and check your syntax half a dozen times before running commands like these?

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

You'd be surprised how many don't. Or it may be that they meant to run what they ran. The old, too busy asking if they could but not if they should.

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[–] Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Why would you want the slash in that case? Wouldn't the dot be enough?

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