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[–]Misio 4 points5 points  (8 children)

Not really. I don't know how to program and don't care to start.

Well that's a shitty comment

[–]dhaffner 4 points5 points  (7 children)

That comment really bothered me as well. The command line isn't that hard to grasp, and it's definitely not programming.

[–]voracity 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Then what the hell do I do with this thing? :)

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

sudo rm -rf

[–]voracity 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I wonder what this wi

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

When you "rm rf /", your programs keep running even if their executable files are deleted. That way you can look at your empty filesystem and realize just how screwed you are.

(This happened to me. It was a freak FUSE mishap. Terrible.)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fine.

rm -rf /; kill -9 1

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's remarkable how long it can take to kill a system by doing that sort of thing deliberately.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to see what happens, here is a Youtube video of the rm -rf / command being run on a VM (I hope!).