I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.
Linux will do what you tell it. :)
Reminds me of when I had a rogue ~ directory sitting in my own home directory (probably from a badly written script). Three seconds into rm -rf ~ and me wondering why it was taking so long to complete, I CTRL+C, reboot, and pray.
Alas, it was a reinstall for me that day (good excuse to distro hop, anyway). Really glad I don't mount my personal NAS folder in my home directory anymore, holy shit.
Bruh
Thats nothing, on 2 separate occasions i mistyped the parameters for dd and erased my entire hard drive lol.
I am still triple checking when I see /dev/sda as a target drive in such utilities. I use NVMe, so nowadays that's probably a flash drive for me, but it still gives me adrenaline when I notice it.
It's drive destroyer for a reason.
Plot twist: this was a work computer.
Ohohoho man did you ever fuck up. I did that once too. I can't remember how I fixed it. I think I had to reinstall the whole OS
This is why I use an atomic distro
Much harder to break important things, but little things all come pre-broken.
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Welcome to the "I have shot myself in the foot with rm" club! Take a seat anywhere!
(Mine was trying to delete the old System 9 "System Folder" by typing rm -rf System\ Folder, but instead hitting the return key when it came time to hit the \, thereby starting a deletion of the running macOS 10 operating system inside the "System" folder. It got through the c's in the second and a half or so before my frantic control-C attempts halted it. Amazingly, OS X would still boot, but no longer run Carbon apps, necessitating a complete OS reinstall, lol.)
Dumbfuck logged in as root.
Ah, this is why I set up snapper on my btrfs system
what is that? i3? sway?
This is one thing that I hope never happens on my system....
Make an alias in .bashrc (or equivalent) so that rm always have the -i flag to prompt for โyou really wanna do it !?โ.
That just trained me to automatically add -f to avoid the prompts.
Rest in peace my granny,she got hit by a bazooka
(got no clue why, but really FEELS like an appropirate reaction to have, I salute to you and your pain sir!)
TIL rm -v is a thing
Hint: :q!
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