root shell? Already playing it fast and loose, I see.
This really isn’t dangerous unless you already screwed up badly. If it wipes, you just restore from backup/DR.
You do have backups and a DR plan for your prod servers, right?
Same.
Didn’t some company have a script running that would randomly kill stuff to always test redundancies?
I vaguely recall someone telling me that about netflix
that’s like starting fires on random properties to make sure your firefighters stay on their toes
Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today
I vaguely remember reading a news story about a firefighter that did that a while ago.
Sure do! They’re on the prod servers and were one of the first things deleted!
the backup was connected via /media/backups so that’s gone too!
Not sure, do I?
I did this once on my laptop with no backups. I was lucky. I also used the correct version with --no-preserve-root.
Given that their hand is over the mouse and not the keyboard/enter key, I assume they’re gonna click close on the terminal :p
Right click for paste, they have \n in the clipboard
Afaik \n may not run a command. I have pasted multiline commands but they only seem to run after hitting enter
Depends on the terminal I think. Pretty sure KDE’s Konsole warns you that commands may be run when pasting something with newlines, but still allows it.
There is an exploit which addresses copy pasting things in terminal. Where you’d copy one thing, but when pasting you get more than you bargained for. Any decent terminal would ignore
\n
for this reason or at least not treat it as pressing enter.It definitely runs the command for me in GNOME Terminal. Pasting multiple commands at once runs everything but the last command.
Well they did have the type the command, and to do that they would first have to navigate to the terminal (assuming the machine isn’t running just a plain tty) first.
change it to
!=
cowards!Cowards version:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo 'rm -fr /... you crazy dude? NO' || echo 'Keep your french language pack, you will need it'
There is a
$[]
?Huh, it’s the same as
(( ))
- arithmetic expansion.
I think it’s deprecated and not in the bash manual, but it still seems to work.It is? Weird. I know about deprecated backticks, but this… I guess it’s so deprecated that very few people know about this. Now a bit more.
As an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.
Daily Linux user since Slackware 95, news to me too lol
Same camp, and know bash very, very, well. Crazy how you can always learn.
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Its deprecated kinda like `` should be $() https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xcu_chap02.html seach for arithmetic expansion or $[].
This is why you use virtual machines, anyone can be root!
We are root!
What is right clicking on terminal going to do?
maybe they have it mapped to enter, you never know with laptop linux users.
Right click increase the temp of the touchpad, which the user has macroed as an "Enter"input, letting him press enter with all fingers on home row and just resting the palm on the touch pad
Ultimate ergonomics at the cost of entry speed.
Btrfs snapshots?
You’re using btrfs on prod?!
Man, you’re crazier than I thought… /s
Oh shit that was too controversial, wasn’t it? s/btrfs/ LVM/g
in 2024 this should rewrite history in all your githib repos to destroy wverything next fetch
Jokes on you, I use zsh, your silly bashisms have no power here.
Are you sure it doesn’t work on zsh? It’s valid POSIX shell code, and like bash, zsh is a superset of POSIX, at least if I remember correctly.
This is not to goad you into destroying your filesystem. Replace the
rm
with something relatively harmless likeecho "BANG! You're dead!"
if you decide to test it.Key here is the outer [] and interaction of $[], test doesn’t have == by default in standard posix, so no this isn’t posix shell or bourne compatible. Tis but another bashism. I could probably force zsh into a more bourne mode to try it but its definitely not portable bourne shell its bash.
$ [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo rm || echo ok zsh: = not found $ zsh --version zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
== should be -eq for this to be posix/bourne portable, you could use = but -eq is for numeric comparisons so not quite right.
fish and nu are the superior shells
Is fash like that fish shell only more fetch? zsh is obviously the best, its the omega end to shell names with the z (in latin alphabets so there).
yeah i meant fish
Hmm I thought you only spin once so there’s eventually a guaranteed shot. The 6 should decrement after each execution.
That’s not how randomness works. You would want to randomize once, saving the number of steps remaining until the bullet is the next shot, decrementing the number of steps for each try.
Does “rm /” include external drives under /media/$USER/* or /run/media/ ?
Yes
Truly the “Linux Roulette”.