Well i didnt do it accidentally. So ive always wanted to try this. If your wondering what this is then ill enlighten you. ‘rm’ is for remove, and ‘-r’ is to recursive remove from current directory, and ‘f’ is to force shutdown the process so it can be removed. No say your did this in the root of the linux server. Would it actually remove the kernel? Now onto the story. We had a web server being put out of commission. I took 3 screenshots as i did it.

So the first screenshot here is me just typing it.

This next one i kept typing ‘ls’ and eventually the ‘rm’ deleted the command ‘ls’.

Then when the commands were deleted i had nothing else to do but shut it down.


As im sure you know, it was very much fun to be destructive.

Jason Rogers