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