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One time before knowing linux, i was using a mac, first time being really exposed to posix, I git access to a server and needed do delete a folder, I did not know what . Or .. was, so I did rm -rf . On the root folder.
I saw fucking tons of lines going by, then I realized what I did, i hit ctrl C then mi brain interpreted what I saw, it said access denied on every line.
Nothing happened, but I shat my pants.
I went and grabbed a beer, looked for an article on command line basics and continued my day. -
All I can say is you aren't the only one...
https://devrant.com/rants/2208263/...
BTW what's up with your permissions? You should own your home directory and most of its content. -
@NoOneCares and to be less snarky...
If I remember correctly, tilde must be escaped.
Permission denied is a bit weird...
Tilde is a cumbersome thing. Easier to use $HOME and less cumbersome.
$home is a variable, ~ is a character expansion - big difference.
rm -r \f would be correct. -
@IntrusionCM Honestly, I don't understand what you mean, `rm -rf ~` works just fine. Did you try it? ;)
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@cprn sigh. maybe use that brain of yours and figure out that the user wanted to deleted a folder named tilde.
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@IntrusionCM LOL, I'm trolling, man. You have a very German sense of humour. Not a laughing matter.
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@cprn nah. Less german sense of humour, more being terribly annoyed and not drunk enough (yet) for this level of humour
~During app demo to our client~
- And when you click here the request will be submitted, the admin will be no...
This is what happens when you listen to clients
So in the morning today, I played with some game engines and libraries, one of them is Orx.
When I `git clone` the repo and setup for it, the doc says that I can use `init.sh` to setup my Orx game project. Sweet!
When I run it, the program ask me for the path, I thought that it will allow me to create a game project at any path. So I entered `~/Projects/Games/my-orx-game`.
After that, it asked for some other stuff and I just skip though it.
Then, I went to `~/Projects/Games` and use `ls` to check my game project, but I don't see anything. I went back to where I installed Orx and realized that it creates a game project __in__ the directory that it was installed. Now, there's a directory called `~` inside the directory. I remove it using `rm -rf ~`, but Linux stopped me with `Premission denied`. Then for some stupid reason, I typed `sudo rm -rf ~` without thinking. After doing that line, my fish shell comes to it original prompt. And I realized I fucked up.
I restarted the computer, thought that I wiped the whole OS. Luckily, it just wiped the configuration files. The softwares works completely fine. My Project files and any content in those default directories (Like `Music` and `Downloads`) are also wiped. But I don't care about them at all. At least not right now.
Now I know that I need to be more careful when typing a command in the terminal.
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