Just DON'T!

Avoid messing up your system like a clown 🤡

Download Watch how I nuked my PC 😅 You should always read the install script

Why?

It is often said that Linux gives you the power to do ANYTHING you want. That is quite literally true. You might think that the rm command prevents you to remove the system root, which is more or less true. Even if you cancel the command 0.5 seconds after it began it is already too late.

This tool will help you prevent you from f****ng yourself. As I have done many times in the past.

Here are some examples:

⚠️ THESE WILL DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM!!!

Base example everyone knows

rm won’t let you just remove the root unless you provide the --no-preserve-root flag e.g.

sudo rm -fr --no-preserve-root /

Glob patterns

However, you might not know that /* actually resolves differently. It resolves in all the contents using a glob pattern and thus it won’t be protected by the lack of --no-preserve-root flag.

sudo rm -fr /*

Victim of `sudo`

Depending on what you have done recently in your shell session, you don’t even need to provide sudo e.g.

sudo echo 'henlo fren'
rm -fr /*

Installation

Linux apt

Requires apt repository to be registered

sudo apt install dontrm

Using installation script

Execute the installation script. By default should install to /usr/bin
Terminal window
```
curl -fsSL https://fuabioo.github.io/dontrm/install.sh | bash
```
Verify your installation.
Terminal window
```
dontrm version
```
(Optional) Replace rm with dontrm in your shell configuration (e.g. .bashrc .zshrc). This can be done by either an alias (for humans using terminal) or a function (if you want scripts to also be affected by this).
Terminal window
```
alias rm="dontrm"
```
Terminal window
```
rm() {
    dontrm $@
}
```
Terminal window
```
rm version
```

Disclaimer

This is only a rm wrapper, under the hood it only validates the input to prevent any accidental removal that would normally pass without trouble on rm. The only difference added to the CLI is that a new version command was added to:

Give visibility of what version you have installed (obviously)
If you have the alias, to give you the means to verify it as well