1 Feb
2016
1 Feb
'16
7:54 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:44:48 -0600 Chris Adams wrote:
Did someone think running "rm -rf /" is a good idea?
Quote from one of the people who commented on that article:
QUOTE:
You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/
Now, you have a bug in the script and ${DIRECTORY} is not initialized. You then get rm -rf / executed. One should always ensure that DIRECTORY is not empty before running this. Or better, never end with /. If you have rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}", then only rm -rf gets executed, causing rm to fail since no file/directory is provided. END OF QUOTE
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