remove the โ.โ to adress the root of the problem.
Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.
And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:
sudo rm -fr /*
So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, โFuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole,โ right?
No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has โfrโ in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, hereโs what the command actually does:
rm is the command to delete files and folders
-f is the force modifier. This means itโll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can
-r is the recursive modifier. That means itโll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.
/ is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If youโre used to Windows, thatโs like targeting C:.
Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it wonโt work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.
/* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.
Technically this does remove the French language pack.
Yes, but it seems the French language pack is a dependency for pretty much everything else! Who knew?
Donโt forget to remove the tuber preserves with --no-preserve-root
I wonder how many people have fallen for this
I have last week, tho I wasnโt tricked, but simply forgot the โ.โ when cleaning an usb.
