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[โ€“] OwOarchist@pawb.social 54 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty

Ah, good times.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 18 minutes ago

Probably a good idea to enable the nounset shell option when shipping commercial-grade install scripts. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

Wow.

That's a nuclear grade 'oopsie' right there hahaha!