• @naonintendois
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    214 months ago

    I trolled myself by “learning” that I could delete all files in a directory, including hidden files, with rm -rf ./*. The mistake being that I (more than once…) accidentally put a space between the . and /.

    • Bonehead
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      194 months ago

      And that’s why every rm command should start life as an ls command and then change the command and options while not touching the target directory. Takes a little longer, but saves so much hassle when you do fuck up.

      • NaibofTabr
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        84 months ago

        This is the best advice in the whole thread.

        Check what you’re doing before you do it.

      • @naonintendois
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        54 months ago

        Rm was updated to actually log a warning in the -rf / cases, so that’s less likely to happen anymore. Still not a bad habit to use ls though

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      I forced myself to use trash (from trash-cli) when I lost my first server install from this.

      Nowadays, I’ve removed the alias from rm that asked me to use trash, and am still using trash if there’s a chance I might want to keep something.