linuxmemes @lemmy.world exu @feditown.com 9h ago

I did the classic blunder today

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At least you finally cleaned up that Downloads directory
This doesn't look like a land war in asia.
- The other classic blunder
  
  Never going in with a Sicilian when death is on the line?
You're in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
- I remember this lol, to be fair no one knew how the guy managed todo it, because steam(the launcher) has checks for that, they assume the guy tried to run the steam command instead of clicking the launcher(don't do that)
- Holy... Fuck... That is scary AF!
Oh, it's been a while that my rm -r * .o taught me about backups.
Didn't get, you removed everything from the /tmp folder?
- There is a wild card * that will remove everything in the current directory (and remove /tmp too)
  
  Oh, so he deleted his download folder, not that bad I guess
- Wild card is on the wrong side of the /tmp argument
godspeed
https://launchpad.net/safe-rm

https://github.com/kaelzhang/shell-safe-rm

etc.
oopsies! 😬
rm: remove [file name 1]?
- I ran the command without sudo first. It had a bunch of permission errors removing stuff in /tmp. So I retried but with sudo
  
  /tmp is world-writable. If you get permission-errors, you should become suspicious.
  Also, whenever you write "sudo rm -rf" you should quadruple-check if that's really what you want to do.
  Non-interactively deleting entire directories in root space isn't something you should have to do normally.
The worst I have done is wipe out my home directory. Backups are good, I was able to copy everything back and it was like it never happened

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