http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/201 ... inux-bug/1The mind of an anonymous Valve's programmer wrote: Hmmm... a rm -rf with an environment variable and a literal "/*" combined together as its parameter ...
Maybe I should check if the $STEAMROOT is not empty ...
Maybe I should check if the path exists ...
Maybe I could also rewrite it an leave out the "/*", after all I've specified -rf already with a path ...
Maybe ... hey ! Look at the time, it's noon ! Lunch time ! I'll think about all this later.
'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.
'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again ?"
Re: 'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.
Geez... 
I bet someone got fired...
I bet someone got fired...Blog: Why Does It Suck? (http://whydoesitsuck.com/)
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Re: 'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.
Well in their defense, they at least commented it with "SCARY!"Shield wrote:Geez...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896319
Windows 11, Manjaro, Raspberry Pi OS
Re: 'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/15512
Just another day at the office.
A rare, unpredictable, inscrutable bug you mean.Linux
Fixed a rare bug where Steam could delete user files when failing to start
Just another day at the office.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again ?"