So at work, I recently migrated over from my Linux box to an OS X box, and the old box will soon be formatted… so I decided to have a bit of fun with it!

I present you with rm_rf_roulette.sh!!

#!/bin/bash
directories="boot/* bin/* etc/* lib/* opt/* root/* run/* srv/* sys/* usr/* var/*"
files=($(ls --color=never -d $directories | egrep -v "(:$|^$)"))
fileToDelete="${files[RANDOM % ${#files[@]}]}"
echo "Deleting $fileToDelete"
rm -rf $fileToDelete

I plan to run this in a loop until it no longer has the capability of running :)

UPDATE:

Before:

After:

I would say this is a success.

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