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The -I flag is a bit more friendly; one may safely alias rm to rm -I and not even notice on the common case (deleting a single file).
I use a script that moves a file to a ~/.trash directory when I use rm. If I am sure I want to actually delete a file permanently I just use /bin/rm.
I've done a similar thing a few years ago when I was first starting work on my guild hosting company's code. At the time, the main thing hosted on that machine was my WoW guild's website, which I had been working on for close to a year, and was beginning work on converting the site over to a general purpose guild hosting site. I was doing some work for a client, setting up a mirror of sorts for some kind of yearbook…
I've done a similar thing a few years ago Ha - I'll bet everybody here has a story that starts like that. (Although your heroic save was heroic!) My sad delete story was in 1982 - I had a fantastic graphical robot-vs.-robot game stored on tape on an HP portable computer (I was in high school). For some reason, the delete command on the HP had a variant that deleted from a given block forward on the tape, as I recall,…
Hah! I literally (not figuratively) laughed for a minute at that. I'm still smiling a few minutes later. Well played.
Let's mourn together at the memories of long lost code.
Unix could really do with a command that you can wrap around this type of call. Either a sanity check on the path part or a safe rm alternative that contains it. I would gladly give up full rm access to know that I can safely (or safer-ly) delete in scripts. It could be something as simple as a file with paths on each line it - match one path or a path with a glob - and the script fails before destroying anything imp…
Ah. It seems I have just described 'safe-rm'. Great minds etc :)
I've done a similar thing a few years ago when I was first starting work on my guild hosting company's code. At the time, the main thing hosted on that machine was my WoW guild's website, which I had been working on for close to a year, and was beginning work on converting the site over to a general purpose guild hosting site. I was doing some work for a client, setting up a mirror of sorts for some kind of yearbook…
Yeah, the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago and at the time I thought I was the coolest guy on the planet when I recovered most of my data. I had accidentally deleted all my chat logs. Luckily, all the chat logs had a timestamp in them, so I just searched for all timestamped lines on the disk and dumped them to a file. I then wrote a script to group and sort all the logs based on the date and who I was…
That's the feeling. It's almost euphoric. It's the "FUCK YEA" meme (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fck-yea).
In actual content, it's convenient that you had timestamps to work with. That eliminates a lot of the need to trim off trailing bytes. Kudos to you for the epic save, and on a live (mounted?) disk too? Living dangerously :)
That's pretty heinous, but deleting /usr shouldn't cause you to lose any irreplaceable data.
The home directory is the full path to a directory on the system in
which the user will start when logging on to the system. A common
convention is to put all user home directories under /home/username
or /usr/home/username. The user would store their personal
files in their home directory, and any directories they may create
in there.
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SQL is desperately in need of some updates. For starters, DELETE FROM should never be allowed without a WHERE clause. DBs should simply define that as malformed sql.
Exactly. There is no need given TRUNCATE exists.
I learned a rather unusual trick to keep myself safe from unintended glob matches. It is not "fool"-proof, but it will probably dilute an unmitigated disaster into an incomplete disaster: Keep a file named -i in the sensitive directories. When glob picks it up, which should be fairly early, it will be treated like a command line argument. Has saved me on occasions. I also had a friend in school who used to, for whate…
In the time it takes to thump the notepad, it gives my brain a vital few seconds to triple check what I just typed before I blast monkies into space. Saved my behind more than a few times.
Looks like someone never read the Unix Hater's Handbook. Another fun thing is rm + shell expansion. A file named * or / can cause extremely unintended deletions.