Is there a good reason why Linux doesn't have a recycle bin?
because real Operating systems don't need one?
Ooops.
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#82I 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…
I hate that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach after you realize what's happening. Same thing when you forget the WHERE on a DELETE FROM.
Use the Dummy switch:
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose what you're seeing here is actually a reflection of Reddit, 4Chan & friends, i.e. I suppose this very commit has been posted in some of those places as well. I still have some hope for Github-in-general.
Actually, almost all of the comments are since it got posted here, and as of right now this second, I don't see it's popular on Reddit...
HN is mirrored on tons of sites. The fact that it's the default on somewhere like jimmyr.com for 'coding' should tell you how well-known news.yc has become. Don't think it's full of erudite hackers only anymore.
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#84I 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…
I hate that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach after you realize what's happening. Same thing when you forget the WHERE on a DELETE FROM.
Over the years I've been steadily training myself to type "WHERE" earlier in the process, until I have finally settled on the obvious-in-hindsight solution: Always simply start with the WHERE clause.
(Of course every effort not to be on the SQL shell of a production server in the first place should be taken, but sometimes you need a sledgehammer and nothing else will work.)
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach after you realize what's happening. Same thing when you forget the WHERE on a DELETE FROM.
Over the years I've been steadily training myself to type "WHERE" earlier in the process, until I have finally settled on the obvious-in-hindsight solution: Always simply start with the WHERE clause. (Of course every effort not to be on the SQL shell of a production server in the first place should be taken, but sometimes you need a sledgehammer and nothing else will work.)
I do that now, too. I have a trigger-happy semicolon finger.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
rmtrash http://www.nightproductions.net/cli.htm I prefer 'brew install rmtrash'
There's lots of stuff like that out there, I'm talking about something I can actually replace the rm binary with, a wrapper that precisely maintains the rm interface as described here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin... I like the idea of actually wrapping the unlink syscall, but I have no idea if/how darwin allows that.
You can alias trash-cli over rm, though it ignores -i, -r and -f and instead runs recursively, forced and non-interactively by default.
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#87This release fixes the install script; it no longer deletes the /usr directory in its entirety. But how on earth did this get through even basic testing? Absolutely shocking!
Not really that shocking if you realize it's a mostly one man project that probably doesn't have basic testing.
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#88Is there a good reason why Linux doesn't have a recycle bin?
Almost all of the desktop environments commonly used with Linux do have a trash bin.
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#89Is there a good reason why Linux doesn't have a recycle bin?
because real Operating systems don't need one?
That's what I thought. I'd be happy if anyone chimed in with a legitimate reason, but I won't be surprised if the lack of a recycling bin is just one more symptom of the Linux developer community's apathy towards the actual human beings who use their software.