I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.

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[–] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Amateurs. You all did it accidentally. I deleted system critical files intentionally believing it was beneficial.

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