I know just the audience for this

Midnight Wolf

Set up a remote access system on client/customer machines for tech support. When a customer doesn't pay, and notices have been sent and not replied to, and they won't answer your calls: this, on all their machines with past due payments.

Then when they call you in a panic, give them the same kindness and respect that they have given to you, down to the number of days since contact was stopped. Gotta twist that knife for maximum effectiveness. Then and only then should you consider answering their cries of agony.

(now I've never had a client payment issue, usually it's quite some time before they need my assistance again so I take payment in full at completion, not tabs/payment plans; but hypothetically...)

Midnight Wolf

It's because when it's said aloud, many of us just truncate the "have" and it sounds like "of". Then we go to type it and often type what we think it sounds like...

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Wouldn't that path only resolve if those intermediate directories exist? I thought bash had to crawl the path to resolve it

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First, lose the attitude, not everyone here works in IT. Second, you'd be surprised what people can overlook.

odd

"Why the latest exploits are actually a good sign"

The Verge

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Having it concat the string may bypass some of the safeguards as it's only looking at parts of the fork.

String Concatenation in Bash [6 Methods] - LinuxSimply

Explore the article to learn the methods of bash string concatenation and enhance the script flexibility and functionality efficiently.

LinuxSimply (linuxsimply.com)

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Why would it be running with sudo perms?

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Is this considered chaotic neutral

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Magic, thank you.

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So it doesn't run into permission errors

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The fact that some of you don’t get this is satire is what’s really funny.

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Skynet's existence is contingent on the Terminator movies remaining profitable, so Dark Fate's performance might have averted Judgment Day.

lurch (he/him)

Sounds like reddit was part of the training data

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Yeah, that's what I meant with folders.

I'm sure you could make it more general by traversing through /usr/libs and back.

lurch (he/him)

when you're in a chroot and you want to wipe only that whole part. you can't format the chroot, because it's just a subtree of the filesystem you want to keep.

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How does this work? I tried to cd with … in bash and it doesn’t seem to work. And what would be the point of the single dots in there?

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I’m going to start doing this on all posts

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This will be the next SQL injection from the PHP days when they can’t bind parameters.

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Ok I was thinking of a chroot env as being the only possible use case for this command.

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/./ would apply to the current directory, and /../ would move into the parent directory. I imagine the idea is to start in a deeply nested directory, /home/user/Documents/old and begin either maintaining the directory (in a sense doing something like '–0' or reverting to a more basal directory (alla '–1'). The branch moving into ~/Music/badSongs is probably a way of trying to disguise the intent of parsing /.././.././.././.. to root and then /* to glob all root directories.

I imagine if for some reason ChatGPT was running Zsh or something that supports that kind of augmented Bash syntax it would work, but realistically it likely would fail.

I think someone might have better luck by attempting to rm - rf --no-preserve-root with a series of random, less-necessary files and throw a /* in the mix. Or attack another important directory that might get overlooked like /proc/*