Comments on: 10 Most Dangerous Commands – You Should Never Execute on Linux

By: Jiff

Jiff — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:12:49 +0000

Hi, I once had to remove some temporary files beginning with a tilde in my home directory, unfortunately, I was distracted and typed an extra space after the tilde: rm ~ *, you can imagine what happened.

Anyway, such errors are good to do once, because that’s the kind of thing you never ever forget;-p)

By: Elad Kaplan

Elad Kaplan — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 07:06:19 +0000

As many note here, there is a lot of harmful commands that can make a lot of damage…

Check out this project, intercept any risky patterns (default or defined by you) and prompt you a small challenge for double verification, kinda like a captcha for your terminal.

https://github.com/kaplanelad/shellfirm

By: dt

dt — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:19:23 +0000

In reply to concewa. You missed out a :

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By: Joaquim Muchaxo

Joaquim Muchaxo — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:41:07 +0000

Today I wrote a command using a single * nothing more and the result was that the entire current directory was deleted!

Fortunately, I add all backed up on Git bitbucket.

By: chenTing

chenTing — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:33:01 +0000

Is there any teaching about hidden commands?