I’m a complete moron, I should’ve had that backed up and used trash…
I had to learn the hard way lol
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I should’ve […] used trash
For those who don’t know: trash-cli
It upsets me to no end that this isn’t a standard package 😭
What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.
I’m a complete moron,
You are not,
Every person learning with the hardway isnt a moron,You have to do, to really learn,
If you do it again though…
🫢 🤷♀️ I would say, that depend the personnal situation,
But i think, OP learned :)
if your session is still running you can use
envto help reconstruct itYou’re just the latest member of a long and storied fraternity of the best worst operating system architecture.
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
One of us…
Reason’s I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that’s sometimes not enough.
just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.
I’ve started adopting the habit of putting “-rf” as the last argument to avoid accidentally deleting something before I’ve double-checked my input. Good luck, and may this never happen again.
I do exactly the same. It’s not foolproof but it’s better than nothing. I remember, almost a decade ago, when I discovered that
rmon mac didn’t accept flags as last arguments… I hope they changed that behavior
I should’ve had that backed up
Absolutely! IT’s time to check out Stow now. With this you can easily manage your configuration and dotfiles (and all other data) in a single location.
https://venthur.de/2021-12-19-managing-dotfiles-with-stow.html
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.
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.
Thanks for the tip!
i have
rmaliased torm -i, it’s basically the closest to PowerShell’s-WhatIfthat a posix shell getsthats the sort of command you need to make an alias for
Ow.
Use nix home-manager or guix home and put your configs in a git repo (this is my guix home config for reference)
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.
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
