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It's just that in some emergency situations, where for example someone deleted a lot of files on the disk, you might not have /bin/cat or /bin/cp anymore.


I don't see how that ("rm -rf /") is relevant... The OP feared for a reboot that would make him recode his command line.


Ah, fair enough. Good point :)




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