It's windows. And we don't see the rest of the command (that would include the path) it's likely it included the flag to remove files, as it was actually trying to remove a whole project.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rmdir

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the original Reddit post the full command is given as rmdir /s /q d:\ which does indeed include the flag to remove files and subdirectories.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Jesus it's not even like it just ran rmdir from the current directory and got lost, it just flat out explicitly deleted everything from the root of the drive