I’m a complete moron, I should’ve had that backed up and used trash…
I had to learn the hard way lol

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    23·
    1 month ago

    Here’s a rule I learned the hard way a few decades ago:

    • If you type “rm”, take you hands off the keyboard and take one deliberate breath before continuing your command.
    • If you then type “-r”, do it again.
    • If you then type “-f” do it again.
    • In all cases, re-read what you wrote before hitting ENTER.
    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      I’m a big fan of starting the command with a #, then removing it once I’m happy with the command to defend against accidentally hitting enter

      Putting ~ next to the enter key on keyboards (at least UK ones) was an evil villain level decision

      • Zykino
        15·
        1 month ago

        When I’m unsure, I ls <the-glob>, chek, then replace ls with rm.

      • Corr@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 month ago

        I really like this # idea. I’ve also taken to holding off on adding sudo when deleting privileged files

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
          2·
          1 month ago

          In the few years of me exclusively using the command line to manage files, even having rm aliased to rm -rf, and at some point to sudo rm -rf, out of convenience, I think it has happened thrice that I deleted the wrong file, and twice I was able to restore it with (hourly) backups. The third time, it was a minecraft world which I had created to test some mods and the server start script, and I had excluded it from backups because my ~/games dir is usually only used by steam.