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sudo rm -R / - never!

If someone tricks you into typing this, you’ll erase everything off of all of your mounted hard drives. Not just the system drive, but all of them!

rm means remove. -R means recursively, that is, every directory inside the target. / is the target, and means the top level of your computer, which logically represents all of your mounted hard drives.

So, don’t do this. That would just be silly.