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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?

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  • Everyone is deleting data, but with proper backups that's not a problem. How about:

    curl insert_url_here | sudo bash

    This can really mess up your life.

    Even if the script isn't malicious, if the internet drops out halfway the download you might end up with a "rm -r /", or similar, command.

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