For all my visitors and students interested in Linux, here’s a cautionary article to steer you away from some innocuous-looking commands that will do catastrophic things to your system. This is far from an exhaustive list, but consider just one:
rm -rf /
-for a nasty surprise, if you’re not aware of what it will do. Put a “sudo” in front of that and it’s even better.
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