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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Tried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This. When the ls command works, hit ctrl-a, meta-d, type rm, enter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Oh, didn't knew about Alt d. Thx

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I never thought of doing that in 40 years. It's a great idea actually. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or have backups (lol)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AND have backups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

-i doesn't exist?