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The Cursed Computer Iceberg (suricrasia.online)

submitted 1 year ago by tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

rm -rf $STEAM_ROOT/ takes me wayyy back. I remember hearing about that one. It was part of a script that shipped with a Stream installer?

Whatever it was, the bug was that if the env var in that line wasn't defined, it would just rm the actual root. Hilarious if doesn't happen to you!