linuxxx

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FancyDeveloper

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Jifuna

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Ai, thats bad. Was it an important system?
3

fonfi

805

7y

I thought that some systems (Ubuntu) block this...
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mlask

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You see... shorter and safer would be to omit that ./ ;)
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ewpratten

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@snaz not in Arch Linux.
3

LrdShaper

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Testdisk and Photorec are your friends
2

Root

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This is what bash functions are for.

Replace rm with a function that lists the pattern and prompts. Never delete something incorrect again.
2

linuxxx

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I'm in one of then tags and nobody mentioned me yet?!
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JannikHv

504

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Why not just do

$ rm -rf *

instead of

$ rm -rf ./*

?
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GeaRSiX

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Happens to everyone. I did something like that to the etc/ folder during server migration once...
In my bashrc I've setup rm -rf to do an ls first and wait until I press enter to confirm it.
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FancyDeveloper

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@Jifuna luckily no
1

Noob

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One of the simplest solutions is to "cd .." and then "rm -rf" the specific folder.
The other one is to use full paths and not relative ones.
And, also to ls first and then remove with the same argument.
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j0n4s

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Exactly the same mistake happend to me..
0

xewl

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@linuxxx don't you have that search pattern/tag listing favorited yet by now?
0

linuxxx

144420

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@xewl What? 😅
0

xewl

4126

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@linuxxx this
0

linuxxx

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@crawl I mean more like I can't favourite a tag so I don't understand 😅
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ThatPerlDeb

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@GeaRSiX kinda late to the party but can you hint me where i can get that (alias?) Thing?
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JannikHv

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Doing ./* is so unecessary when you can just do *
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GeaRSiX

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@ThatPerlDeb Do some research into the bashrc file. You can do loads of cool stuff with it :)