10 Most Dangerous Commands - You Should Never Execute on Linux | Linux Today

10 Most Dangerous Commands – You Should Never Execute on Linux

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Ravi Saive
Nov 21, 2013

Linux command line is productive, useful and interesting but sometimes it may be very much dangerous specially when you are not sure what you are doing. This article is not intended to make you furious of Linux or Linux command line. We just want to make you aware of some of the commands which you should think twice before you execute them.

RS

Ravi Saive

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