If you are root, and you issue rm -rf / Then how far can the command go? Can you recover data from this kind of an action? Even after the binaries are gone, would the running processes still be active? What would it take to make the same physical machine boot again? What files would you need...

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I wrote a script to run specific actions conditional on input events informed by an event monitor, which looks something like $ cat script.sh ----------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/bash stdbuf -oL /usr/bin/event_monitor | while IFS= read LINE do something with...

This should be OK: #! /bin/bash - doSomething() { print_err "About to do something" a="$(doSomethingElse)" if [[ "$a" = "dog" ]]; then print_err "Worked" print_err "Now let's do xyz" printf '%s' "cat" else print_err "failed for some reason" ...