The G1 ‘execute every command you type‘ bug naturally spawned ‘rm -rf /’ jokes. rm is the Linux command for deleting files. The -r as well as -f flags will cause it to eliminate data recursively as well as neglect confirmation. carried out as root it will annihilate the entire filesystem. Won’t it? [Jon Hohle] made a decision to test precisely exactly how destructive the command was to *nix systems. exactly how practical would the system be afterwards? He checked it side-by-side with the Windows equivalent, both ‘format c:’ as well as ‘del /F /S /Q’. He wished to see what securities were offered as well as what would be left working. Linux ended up totally damaged while Windows, thanks to data locking, really shutdown cleanly… as well as never came back. Some OSes, like Solaris, decline to run the command ‘rm -rf /’ to stop accidents.