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

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    i have rm aliased to rm -i, it’s basically the closest to PowerShell’s -WhatIfthat a posix shell gets

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I once had a directory in /tmp called etc which contained subdirectories for something I was migrating.

    I thought that I was in /tmp when I ran rm -rf etc… I was actually in /

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it

  • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    1 month ago

    Tipps to prevent future accidents:

    • Set up BTRFS snapshots with Timeshift or Snapper. Switching to BTRFS is worth it for snapshots alone.
    • Do regular backups on a device that can not be reached by rm: vorta local on external hdd that you connect once a week OR vorta/borg2 to a NAS/Server that does BTRFS snapshots itself OR Nextcloud to sync to a server that has a trashbin OR git to a server. Just remember that Nextcloud and git are unencrypted, so the server has to be secure and trustworthy. Vorta and borg2 can be set up with encryption.

    Mistakes are unpreventable due to our error-prone brains, but it is a choice to repeat them.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      That’s very helpful now. You have added nothing other than to pull the declarative distro equivalent of “I use Arch, BTW” And then link your literal code. For shame. For shame.

      • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        nix/guix can be used on any distro and it provides a way to organize .config files so that if the .config directory gets deleted or accidentally modified for some reason, restoring it would be very easy. By putting the configuration in a git repo, it also makes it easy to restore previous configurations. I accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff in my .config directory once and that’s one of the reason I use this tooling now, so I thought OP would find it helpful also

  • RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Sorry for your loss. I did something similar recently. A script was creating a “~” folder in my notes folder. I wanted to delete it… Thankfully it stopped at some file it couldn’t remove and my dotfiles are in git.

    • ma1w4re@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      A tip, to delete files that have names similar to variables or other expandables, put the filename in between single ticks like this ‘filename’. Single ticks prevent expansion.

        • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 month ago

          Set the HISTCONTROLvariable. If it is set to ignorespace then commands entered with a leading-space will not be stored in the history.

      • wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        Holy shit, I never knew you could do that! I’ve always really wanted a feature to stop random commands from being added to my history.

      • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

        I’m guessing something like… Copy file/dir from location A to location B and then delete from A, but the copy had failed (and the delete unfortunately worked fine)?

        • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
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          1 month ago

          I left the last sentence open ended, for comedic effect, but if you really wanna know:

          I transcoded videos with ffmpeg, and tried to exit out of the bash script with ctrl C. the script was something like:

          for
    ffmpeg file finishedFile;
    rm file;

          my ^C broke out only from ffmpeg and before I realized what happened the file got removed and the next ffmpeg call filled my terminal. I tought the key didn’t register, or something was stuck, so I pressed it again… and again… it cost like 45minutes of footage, wasn’t that important tho.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        Your life isn’t my life, and restoring backups is no less a hassle just for having them(personally, I backup files, and either fix what I break or do a clean install). Auto-complete also makes me lose my train of thought, but if its helpful to you, enjoy.

          • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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            1 month ago

            Sure, if that’s your level of thought and reading comprehension, let’s say you’ve got it. Is it really so hard to understand the notion that what works for you doesn’t work for me, but I’m okay with you doing whatever?

            Keep practicing, kid.

      • gun@lemmy.mlOP
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        1 month ago

        Yeah my system was running out of space and I wanted to free a bit quickly. Turns out the issue was Rust building 20GB of binaries and I should have deleted those instead.