Oh no! 🤦♂️
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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.
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You can definitely do this redirecting output. I did this to myself and sighed about 2 seconds into it after realizing what I had done.
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Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.
AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.
First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone's vomit inducing PHP? Gone.
Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat's nest no rat can traverse? Gone.
Welcome to the future: Fixing some "business" guy's vibe coded personal hell made just for you.
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We call this a whoopsie daisy.
I often use the phrase "that's definitely an oopsie. Maybe even an oopsie daisy" at work
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You can definitely do this redirecting output. I did this to myself and sighed about 2 seconds into it after realizing what I had done.
Creating a ~ folder isn't the tricky part. Removing it is.
(until you figure it out once)
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AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.
First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone's vomit inducing PHP? Gone.
Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat's nest no rat can traverse? Gone.
Welcome to the future: Fixing some "business" guy's vibe coded personal hell made just for you.
Asking AI to make my website in C.
Who's going to fix that "business" for me?
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rm -rf "~" may work?
No, but single quotes will.
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rm -rf "~" may work?
In case you are just testing it out, don't use
-rf
Your~directory is most probably empty, so userm -dinstead, to prevent all footguns in case you put the wrong character in the end.-d, --dir remove empty directoriesI feel safe doing
rm -d /.
I feel safe doingsudo rm -d /.Because it won't delete anything that has a file in it.
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Using Nautilus or Dolphin.
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Stopped thinking
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At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.
just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant
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Stopped thinking
Never started
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We call this a whoopsie daisy.
Whoopsie daisy-cutter.
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~
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I think it should've started with "stopped thinking"
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
A method not yet mentioned is by inode, (I've accidentally created filenames I didn't know how to escape at the time like
--or other command line flags/special characters)ls -liOnce you get the inode
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Using Nautilus or Dolphin.
True if these are installed, but if I'm on a server's command line they probably aren't.
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I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
I fairly recently tried to do a
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No, but single quotes will.
huh, I almost removed my entire home directory
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I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.
