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Though the check isn't very sophisticated, if memory serves. It more or less checks whether / is passed to
rm -r.If you did something like
rm -r $VAR/*, but didn't check to make sure that$VARwas set and not empty, it could still fire, since rm wouldn't see that root got passed, only a bunch of directories in root.