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		vortico on April 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Suicide Linux (2011) The -r enters the directory recursively, so it's the same result.

tiddlydum on April 18, 2015 [–]

Not these days; rm refuses to recurse on root. This can be overridden with --no-preserve-root or by appending a *.

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