[Montana_Sam]

The "rm" tells the computer to remove; the r deletes everything within a given directory; and the f stands for "force", telling the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files.

Mostly correct; the argument 'r' is for recursive. So "rm -rf" means starting in the current directory, remove everything recursively and don't bother warning me.

[scrabblehack]

At the same time, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t deliberate.