I think that is only if you pass /, I don’t think the flag is required for /* which is what is shown here - if I remember right, it’s because the * triggers the shell to expand the paths and that flag is only built to protect / (from say, having an empty variable alongside /).
There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f
You also need the flag “–no-preserve-root”.
No you don’t.
rm -fr /
requires the flag, butrm -fr /*
does not.I think that is only if you pass
/
, I don’t think the flag is required for/*
which is what is shown here - if I remember right, it’s because the*
triggers the shell to expand the paths and that flag is only built to protect/
(from say, having an empty variable alongside/
).Yes, the * is expanded by the shell so the rm command just sees lots of individual files being passed in