> finds files called "?" and "?.pub" in home directory. Not sure how they ended up there.
> tries deleting files
> rm ?*
> hits enter and realizes the disaster the very next moment
> cries in corner

Alias your rm.

If memory serves, '?' is a wildcard for a single character, and '*' is a wildcard for 0 or more characters, so '?*' is "anything that's a character followed by any amount of characters". And rm is the Linux command for delete. So, in his home directory, he basically said "delete everything!" On accident

Condolences man

@LuckierDodge All files deleted(directories will need rmdir or rm -r).

u s e q u o t e s

rm -- ?.file

The double dash is a GNU convention. It means that whatever follows, no matter what, will not be parsed as a regex, glob, or command option.

@bahua -- is basically "end of args", right? Everything after is data. Most famous example would be git checkout -- <path>