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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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

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When I’m unsure, I ls <the-glob>, chek, then replace ls with rm.

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This. When the ls command works, hit ctrl-a, meta-d, type rm, enter.

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Oh, didn’t knew about Alt d. Thx

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I really like this # idea. I’ve also taken to holding off on adding sudo when deleting privileged files

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I never thought of doing that in 40 years. It’s a great idea actually. Thanks!

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