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Story from the 70s/80s about recovering a Unix system after `rm -rf /` (FOUND)
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Err(()).unwrap() lemmy.world rtxn@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
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Somebody accidentally deleted most of the system. There were no executables for any shells, text editors, or utilities. All they had was a single terminal that was still logged in as root. I think they had to manually type in some executable's machine code and echo it into a file.

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