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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (4 children)

the /* makes sure you get rid of both french french and french canadian french

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What about ULTRA FRENCH?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

be sure to add -no-preserve-root to make sure ultra french is gone too

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

no need, since /* doesn't start at root, it'll not trip the safety

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think you’re wrong but I’m not willing to test it to see

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Pussy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

the shell expands it to rm -fr /bin /etc /usr /home /dev and so on. rm never sees the /, so the safety doesn't trigger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

virtual machines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

trying to remove ULTRAFRENCH is a fool's errand

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That means we are still missing Swiss French

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

What about French Ceole? Can't be too certain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Please do not be racist to us French people, it is for that reason I have down voted your post today