the shell expands it to rm -fr /bin /etc /usr /home /dev
and so on. rm never sees the /, so the safety doesn't trigger
Please do not be racist to us French people, it is for that reason I have down voted your post today
If you're Canadian, I'm willing to send you several US currency for a bag or two of All Dressed chips!
They show up very rarely when Frito Lays wants to do a limited release, but they're not something I usually see in my local grocery stores anymore.
As an American based on the amount of random Canadian currency I've had In my hands having never been north of the border I can only assume if they were Canadian they would have accidentally had more than a quarter us dollar in random US change in their entire life.
I'm not a fan of this one. It is kind of funny but, I'm also just too worried that some gullible Linux newbies will take this as real advice and be caused great emotional, and potentially financial, tragedy.
Eh, not really anymore. Now you need to run it with the option --no-preserve-root flag or something like that in order for it to do irrivokable damage
Always the french sneaking their way into my Nelgish only system. (Idk history, probably not accurate)