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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womp womp
I once had a directory in
/tmpcalledetcwhich contained subdirectories for something I was migrating.I thought that I was in
/tmpwhen I ranrm -rf etc… I was actually in/I should’ve had that backed up
Absolutely! IT’s time to check out Stow now. With this you can easily manage your configuration and dotfiles (and all other data) in a single location.
https://venthur.de/2021-12-19-managing-dotfiles-with-stow.html
I’ve started adopting the habit of putting “-rf” as the last argument to avoid accidentally deleting something before I’ve double-checked my input. Good luck, and may this never happen again.
I do exactly the same. It’s not foolproof but it’s better than nothing. I remember, almost a decade ago, when I discovered that
rmon mac didn’t accept flags as last arguments… I hope they changed that behavior
Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.
Save space probably
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for the tip!
I should’ve […] used trash
For those who don’t know: trash-cli
What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.
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)?
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.
It upsets me to no end that this isn’t a standard package 😭
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.
Reason’s I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that’s sometimes not enough.
Reasons to have backups more like. No need to make life hard
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.
Did you just disagree and then agree in the same sentence
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.
If talking like that makes you feel better, sure!
just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.
You’re just the latest member of a long and storied fraternity of the best worst operating system architecture.
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
One of us…
Use nix home-manager or guix home and put your configs in a git repo (this is my guix home config for reference)
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.
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
I should have had backups of important files in my home directory
Lessons learned the hard way
But… why?
I was in a rush to free up space. Rust’s binary sized can be really huge and they were taking up like 20GB at the time, but I was unaware of this.
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i have
rmaliased torm -i, it’s basically the closest to PowerShell’s-WhatIfthat a posix shell getsOw.
