an hour ago
Relying on aliases is the worse solution in my opinion. If it is protecting you too much, you will forget the risk and once for some reason you end up on a shell with a different profile you will forget about it and run a risky command.
20 minutes ago
Title is incorrect, I went for horror stories and all I got was unsolicited advice. Here's a couple classic horror stories for anyone like me:
https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
https://www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2014/4/16/how-rm-rf-almos...
2 hours ago
Instead of `alias rm="rm –I"` for the confirmation dialog before removing a file, I prefer to use trash-cli[0] since I can restore trashed files.
However, I haven't found a similar solution that works on Termux.
2 hours ago
I do the same. My alias for rm just echos "use trash" so I don't replace its function, just disable it.
When I really need to use rm I type /bin/rm.
2 hours ago
Bash also allows you to use \rm to override the alias. Comes in helpful at times.
an hour ago
On a per directory basis...
% touch -- -i
% touch foo
% touch bar
% rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all 3 files in /Users/shagie/test [yn]? y
remove bar? y
remove foo? y
% ls
-i
%3 hours ago
You should, of course, have backups. And one form of backups which you should have are point-in-time snapshots; every ten minutes sounds good.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve deleted something I shouldn’t, but it’s never a big deal.
an hour ago
For those that run systems with zfs, sanoid makes this fairly trivial to configure on a per-dataset basis. It's saved me more than once.
2 hours ago
This is from 2021¹, so it should probably have a (2021)
¹See bottom of article under who the author is