• bhez@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Yep, my friend made a similar mistake. He meant rm -rf music But typed rm -rf /music

    Deleted his whole music collection which was very important to him. I felt so bad for him. I had given him the little bit of Linux knowledge he had when he switched to Linux and made that mistake.

    • Greenman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      To avoid rm mistakes in the future, you could set an alias that always provides the “-i” flag which makes the command prompt you with y/n before the deletion. Another solution is to alias rm for trash-cli commands to move files to the trash like when you delete files in your graphical file manager.