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

        • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 months ago

          Set the HISTCONTROLvariable. If it is set to ignorespace then commands entered with a leading-space will not be stored in the history.

      • wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        Holy shit, I never knew you could do that! I’ve always really wanted a feature to stop random commands from being added to my history.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Your life isn’t my life, and restoring backups is no less a hassle just for having them(personally, I backup files, and either fix what I break or do a clean install). Auto-complete also makes me lose my train of thought, but if its helpful to you, enjoy.

          • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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            3 months ago

            Sure, if that’s your level of thought and reading comprehension, let’s say you’ve got it. Is it really so hard to understand the notion that what works for you doesn’t work for me, but I’m okay with you doing whatever?

            Keep practicing, kid.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    i have rm aliased to rm -i, it’s basically the closest to PowerShell’s -WhatIfthat a posix shell gets

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it

  • RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Sorry for your loss. I did something similar recently. A script was creating a “~” folder in my notes folder. I wanted to delete it… Thankfully it stopped at some file it couldn’t remove and my dotfiles are in git.

    • ma1w4re@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      A tip, to delete files that have names similar to variables or other expandables, put the filename in between single ticks like this ‘filename’. Single ticks prevent expansion.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      That’s very helpful now. You have added nothing other than to pull the declarative distro equivalent of “I use Arch, BTW” And then link your literal code. For shame. For shame.

      • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        nix/guix can be used on any distro and it provides a way to organize .config files so that if the .config directory gets deleted or accidentally modified for some reason, restoring it would be very easy. By putting the configuration in a git repo, it also makes it easy to restore previous configurations. I accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff in my .config directory once and that’s one of the reason I use this tooling now, so I thought OP would find it helpful also

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I once had a directory in /tmp called etc which contained subdirectories for something I was migrating.

    I thought that I was in /tmp when I ran rm -rf etc… I was actually in /

      • gun@lemmy.mlOP
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        3 months ago

        Yeah my system was running out of space and I wanted to free a bit quickly. Turns out the issue was Rust building 20GB of binaries and I should have deleted those instead.

  • TGhost [She/Her]@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m a complete moron,

    You are not,
    Every person learning with the hardway isnt a moron,

    You have to do, to really learn,