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That rmrf joke is obsolete, please update to using the --no-preserve-root flag.
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Or the (probably, IDK) more common way to do it accidentally, cd into /, think you're somewhere else or type into the wrong shell, and then rm -rf *
A safe approach is to go up one dir ectody and run rm -rf dirname. With that habit you have high confid3nce of deleting folder you need.
i've always preferred
rm -rf .*Wont that get only the hidden files not normally collected in the plain
*glob?plus
.and..