Bash oopsies

Steam ran rm -rf /*

Here’s the bug report on GitHub. The issue is caused by this bit of code:

STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)"
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

If $STEAMROOT ends up evaluating to an empty string, the command becomes rm -rf "/"*.

Bumblebee ran rm -rf /usr

Here’s the bug report on GitHub. The issue is caused by an extra space:

rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg