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call me paranoid or stupid but i always use the graphical file manager whenever i can to delete stuff for this very reason.
In that case you should try rmz to speed it up again
is there any coreutil that doesn’t have a “poweruser” rewrite in rust that does the same thing but in color
Don’t delete the french language pack, it’s vital to the OS
Everyone asks what is rm but nobody asks how is rm.
No one ask when rm is.
Use trash-put and trash-cli.
I do the opposite. Whenever I delete anything I use
rm -rf /full/path/to/file
Just starting to type that triggers a fear response and makes me triple-check what I’m doing.
Those French dictionaries are massive.
fr fr
…and this is the reason I added this to my root .bashrc:
export PS1="\h:\$(realpath .)\$ "
no more following symlinks on a remote mount and forgetting about it.sudo rm -r . /Nobody deletes “./“. It’s far far more likely to be “/ tmp/file”
Also, without the -f it will prompt you. Chances are, the meme is with -f
The other possibility, though I haven’t tested it, is the working directory is / and they did “rm -rf .” Without first checking with pwd. I know that most OS will refuse to remove root without passing in a special flag nowadays. Only a few OS still respect you as sudo.
I always add rm flags AFTER the paths. So then I double check the path after adding the flags.
Though the check isn’t very sophisticated, if memory serves. It more or less checks whether / is passed to
rm -r.If you did something like
rm -r $VAR/*, but didn’t check to make sure that$VARwas set and not empty, it could still fire, since rm wouldn’t see that root got passed, only a bunch of directories in root.
Honestly I was cleaning up some docker stuff today…
So I’m
rm -r /mnt/NVME/opt/folder(s)
Hit the refresh button in my gui file browser and it was still there. Lol Took a good 15 seconds for it to vanish.
Crazy. But idk why I expected it to be instant.
This is where we sort the younglings from the grizzled veterans that backup and test their backups. Haven’t lost a file since 2002.
I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.
At a previous job I remember a PR to do essentially
temp=$(mktemp -d) mv $target $temp rm -r $temp &
I thought it was pretty clever. Obviously you would need to make sure mktemp is on the same filesystem (there are good flags to just use a dot file in the current directory). mv is atomic on most filesystems and then the & just runs the rm in the background .
I fail to see the benefit of that script.
