On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
Very often the novice Unix users learns how `rm -rf`
works the hard way.
I've always preferred the spelling, `rm -fr` where I tell people that
the `fr` bit means, "fuck recursively."
Yep, that's the thing everyone has to do once; just like:
% rm * .o
rm: .o: No such file or directory
% ls
%
-- Dave