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[-] bhez@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, my friend made a similar mistake. He meant rm -rf music But typed rm -rf /music

Deleted his whole music collection which was very important to him. I felt so bad for him. I had given him the little bit of Linux knowledge he had when he switched to Linux and made that mistake.

[-] greenmanz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

To avoid rm mistakes in the future, you could set an alias that always provides the "-i" flag which makes the command prompt you with y/n before the deletion. Another solution is to alias rm for trash-cli commands to move files to the trash like when you delete files in your graphical file manager.

[-] celia@pricefield.org 1 points 1 year ago

Been there, done that.

[-] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Install trash. Then create an alias for it. rm='trash -frv'. Problem solved.

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