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[-] [email protected] 100 points 10 months ago 
sudo rm /heart/arteries/**/clot
[-] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago

Very important to not hit enter before clot.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

That's why you have backups.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Or btrfs snapshots.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Isn’t it /dev/heart?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I feel like if your body follows the Unix filesystem structure, you have a real problem.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Please forgive my ignorance. What does ** do?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Acts as a wildcard for any directories that exist between arteries and clot.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But only in Bash and if settings match. It's only reliable on your own shell, don't use it in scripts.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a glob pattern (edit: tried to find a source that actually showed ** in use).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Had to look this up as well. Its not rm specific:

* is a simple, non-recursive wildcard representing zero or more characters which you can use for paths and file names. ** is a recursive wildcard that can only be used with paths, not file names.

More here.

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