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Here's a rule I learned the hard way a few decades ago:
Or have backups (lol)
AND have backups.
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.
Tipps to prevent future accidents:
Mistakes are unpreventable due to our error-prone brains, but it is a choice to repeat them.
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...
I’m a complete moron,
You are not,
Every person learning with the hardway isnt a moron,
You have to do, to really learn,
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 should have had backups of important files in my home directory
Lessons learned the hard way
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)?
It upsets me to no end that this isn't a standard package 😭
if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it
But... why?
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
Reason's I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that's sometimes not enough.
Reasons no have backups more like. No need to make life hard
just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.