On: Don't Pipe to your Shell

[Dylan16807]

But there's no / in that command, or any way for it to rm the wrong directory, unless I'm misunderstanding something.

[chadnickbok → Dylan16807]

You're right, I'm completely wrong - the worst thing that can happen here is that the whole RVM directory is removed. Hardly catastrophic, and definitely not the extreme failure case the article is talking about.

[yen223 → Dylan16807]

There's no guarantee where $rvm_src_path will point to.