Oh no! 🤦♂️
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It should have done sudo rm -rf /*
For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.
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For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.
Of course :3
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I kinda thought they were in the wrong order, though: “rm -rf ~/“ should have been after “stopped thinking”.
I think it did 'rm -rf ~/' and crashed. Hence the 'stopped thinking'
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Should be
\~in most shells, certainly bash. Usemkdirandrmdirwhen messing around to prevent accidents. -
I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....
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This is why the first thing I did when my company got us an agentic LLM was set up devcontainer.
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Should be
\~in most shells, certainly bash. Usemkdirandrmdirwhen messing around to prevent accidents.Saw this post this morning and was thinking about how to delete it ( while falling back asleep ). Escaping the ~, ofc that'd work! I feel so stupid now haha
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At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.
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It should have done sudo rm -rf /*
wrote on last edited by [email protected]So. Funny story. Back when I was incredibly new to Linux, I was trying to move everything from my downloads folder to somewhere else. So I navigated into the downloads directory on the command line and sent something like
"sudo mv /* ~/misc"
when I meant to type
"sudo mv ./* ~/misc"
Yea... That was a fun learning experience and hilarious way to utterly fuck everything on that machine. Luckily it was just an old laptop I'd installed Linux on to mess around and learn, no real damage done
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]prefix with path, and/or quotation
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We call this a whoopsie daisy.
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ctrl-z... ctrl-z....CTRL-Z
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Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.
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Same energy as Republican memes
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Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.
I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
rm -rf "~" may work?
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Reminds me of the time when I bind mounted my home dir in a chroot, then
rm -rfed the chroot when I no longer needed it...Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.
