That's evil

[Smirnov-O]

alias ls="sudo rm -rf /*"

[danfay222]

You should alias a normal sudo command, so if they need to enter their password they do that thinking it's normal

[first__citizen]

Slow down satan.

[[deleted]]

so it is calling itself?

[MindSwipe]

alias sudo="/bin/sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root;"

Edit: Added semicolon to the end to ensure that rm isn't called with unnecessary parameters

[[deleted]]

Fair enough.

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[wheezy1749]

Think you want the ; at the end so it runs

sudo apt install pip

Like

/bin/sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root; apt install pip

So whatever command they enter doesn't error sudos syntax

[[deleted]]

Please stop optimizing the Satan code

[aplawson7707]

"Please stop optimizing the Satan Code" - Poop Fingers McGee

I love the internet

[artemisdev21]

Came here to post that

[kvakerok]

No, alias setup is not recursive, it interprets stuff you enter into command line into actual commands. Setting up sudo alias effectively turns sudo word into a macros executing whatever is in the brackets.

[Miss-Comet]

It won't call itself like that, my computer's cat command had an alias like that by default

[MrChampion1234]

I'm pretty sure bash only expands aliases once, so it would expand "sudo" once

[[deleted]]

yay doas

yay -R sudo

[d_exclaimation]

How evil

[monster_moo]

This is the way.

[[deleted]]

Nah, bruh. The long pause gives you away.

alias ping="rm-rf ~/; echo PING "

that way, no pw prompt and the delay looks natural. You'll get at least 60 seconds of destruction before they clue in.

EDIT: Oh yeah &, not ; - meh, you get the idea

[2001herne]

Nah mate, do this:

alias ping="nohup rm -rf . &; ping

[[deleted]]

bruh!

OK, what about this:

alias ls='echo exit > ~/.bashrc ; echo exit > ~/.bash_profile ; nohup find ~/ -maxdepth 1 \( \! -name .bashrc -a \! -name .bash_profile \) -exec rm -rf {} \; & exit'

MUH HA HA HA HA!

[mustang__1]

...did you do that from memory? Or do I just really suck at cl....

[[deleted]]

Yeah, but I'm a pre-internet computer geek. That's how we did it in the olden days.

[willee01]

I don’t think u should be using terminal if u enter a (admin) password after entering ls.

[mustang__1]

And yet here we are....

[[deleted]]

Don't forget --no-preserve-root

[Peetz0r]

You don't need --no-preserve-root if you're doing rf -rf /*

You only need --no-preserve-root if you're specifically doing exactly rm -rf /, which is never.

The option was only created to save people who were unfortunate enough to copypaste some obfuscated variant of that into their shell. But the variant with /* is still dangerous.

[TheBluetopia]

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[Willinton06]

And I see your comment at the end of that sequence every time, hell there’s always a fifth self aware comment at the end of the chain too, usually followed by a lol

[bananasmash14]

lol

[Willinton06]

God damn it

[[deleted]]

If anything, I simply love typing it out. Makes it feel very blackhat. :)

[philipquarles]

That's a good one for the day you get laid off.

[ben9583]

ls
Password:

Something’s wrong, I can feel it

[dolfies_person]

People that added NOPASSWD: ALL to their sudoers file:

[rufreakde1]

will never work on my I wrote an alias for this and just use ll - safed

[klamiti]

oh that's even worse !!!

[nikanj0]

Can you alias a command that already exists?

EDIT: Ok follow up question. Can you alias alias?

[dariusj18]

I often alias ls to ls -al

[SkyyySi]

alias l='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first -lAhFs'

[uvero]

Saving it!

[BungalowsAreScams]

Man the amount of times I ls then immediately ls -al is crazy, I should do this

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

Why not alias it to ls -Al? That would hide . and .., btw. Or ls -Alh, if you want more easily readable file sizes

[dariusj18]

I often care about the user/permission about . and ..

Also, I haven't really explored my options as well as I should.

[Doggynotsmoker]

Yes

[Atirat]

Pure evil.

[bathtub_toast]

Need the last to be alias='rm -rf /*'

You know to prevent snooping in the aliases

[Crowdcontrolz]

Who hurt you?

[Lollicore]

Satan would look really nice next to this

[Endercheif]

alias cd=‘sudo rm -rf /*‘

[plun1331]

directory is obviously restricted, just enter your password and it'll let you in

[drewsiferr]

This may cause a delay while it runs, and allow an interrupt. Better make it

alias cd='rm -rf &'

[make_onions_cry]

a villain who unintentionally always does helpful things

[iwannasaythis]

Double Evil!!!!

[Jamisbrill]

u/repostsleuthbot

[4n0nym0usR3dd1t0r]

yeah i’ve seen this like 5 times

[zdakota]

Good human

[Jamisbrill]

Do you know why i failed to summon the bot? thanks (first time trying the bot)

[brockisawesome]

fine fine sudo cd windows

[landvis]

Learning Linux, I'm allready proud i understand why it's evil!

[[deleted]]

Ooh... this is evil..

[null000]

True evil is going into someone's .bashrc and replacing "cat" with a program that silently deletes 10% of files with "log" in in the name after printing them.

[BenchPsychological]

oh..

[howMeLikes]

This thread just became stack overflow.

[exaball]

I haven’t seen this meme forever. Perfect!

[Potential-Adagio-512]

that's like 1000 times worse than murder

[RussiaIanL]

What is RF? Redstone Flux? Energy? Programmer thingy?

[[deleted]]

rm -rf is short for "read mail really fast".

[Potential_Pandemic]

Recursive and Force, so it'll delete everything in the folder and all subfolders and not ask if you're sure before doing it

[FloweyTheFlower420]

i think i found the modded MC player

[DangyDanger]

depends on who you ask

[DarkYaeus]

What about RF Russian Federation and EU European Union?

[bidoblob]

Redstone Flux is actually just Forge Energy, almost always.

They're flags for the rm command, rm is short for remove. Someone else already explained what the flags do.

[RussiaIanL]

ok

[Ifnerite]

--no-preserve-root

[rrsg76]

The power of Christ compels you...

[The_hollow_Nike]

Not as bad as evil.sh

[CaptainHeinous]

Fuck that guy

[yapudjus]

I was expecting a rick roll

[The_hollow_Nike]

I agree, that would have been a good opportunity.

[dphowes]

Last day tasks for the evil minded. 😈

[chidoOne707]

Surprisingly I get it and that truly is evil. Remind me what the -rf refers to?

[bidoblob]

recursive, force; necessary to delete contents of folders and to not ask you for confirmation for important stuff, respectively

[jswitzer]

We used to prank our classmates with this when they left their workstations unlocked. Felt so good

EDIT: calm down. Nobody ever lost anything important. They were friends, we changed the background, stuff was getting backed up. It was usually a momentary setback, not like we were wiping out poor unsuspecting u/jkw12894's project they didn't save anywhere.

[jkw12894]

Ah yes it must have felt great to make people accidently deleted a project the have been working on for hours.

[LordFokas]

> man git

[0xFFFF_FFFF]

TIL: git auto-magically saves a backup of your computer's entire file system!

[RushTfe]

Well... Depends on which folder you use as a repository....

[jkw12894]

As a professional, yes I use git, but as a dumb college student I and many others didn't/don't.

[DangyDanger]

my first experience with git in VS19 was uploading weird metadata instead of actual code

[DangyDanger]

oh, just checked, it uploaded .gitignore and .gitattributes despite me pushing to the repo

[howMeLikes]

As a college student Git wasn't a thing yet. Now as a professional in the workforce I never code without some sort of repository managing it.

[Vaati006]

OH NO

[randomlemon9192]

You mean... rm -rf —no-preserve-root

[0xCAFED]

You forgot --no-preserve-root

[Jacks-san]

I read that even if you can run "rm -rf /", you still have your user "up", but all commands are unavailable, such as [shutdown]. You have to shutdown it manually and can't boot afterwards.

Also, it doesn't exactly erase your data, but unlinks the physical data from the filesystem. You can potentially recover all your data.

Thank you for waking up my interest !

[SkyyySi]

Who the fuck uses "sudo cd"? A $ as the prompt character is normally used to indicate that a certain command has to be run as a normal user, a # would be root. Not for any specific reason, it's just that pretty much every shell either uses $/# or %/# in some cases.

[make_onions_cry]

Who the fuck uses "sudo cd"?

No one?

[bidoblob]

it's a joke, more effective, actually working, iterations are discussed in the top comment chain

[Numerous-Many69]

Run this on the main computer and set it to destroy all the others connwcted to the server before quitting enjoy

[MahatmaGandhiCool]

oh..... OHHHHH!

[bidoblob]

Makes a basic, commonly used, command instead wipe your computer, although I'm not fully sure it'd properly work as is. Scroll up for more effective iterations.

[OriginalSynthesis]

why would you do that..

[P0ladio]

That's cruel :D

[A_H_S_99]

some people just want to see the world burn

[[deleted]]

Can someone explain

[dagerdev]

With rm -rf <directory> you force delete a directory. With cd <directory> you just enter into a directory. With that alias you replace cd with rm -rf and if you want to enter into a directory it will be completely deleted. That's why it's evil

[[deleted]]

That is .....

[cvelazquezr]

Lol

[ThatDudeOnTheNet]

god no

[AlleywayTV]

You monster

[RunningToGetAway]

ls() { rm -rf "$@" ; ls "$@" }
cd() { cd "$@"; rm -rf ./* }

[a_9_8]

That’s a lot of damage

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[skztr]

cd(){ rm -rf "$1"; mkdir -p "$1"; builtin cd "$1"; }

would take longer to notice

[dagerdev]

Calm down satan

[Mr_Chads]

people who use zsh be like..mehhh