Bad to worse

[outlier_lynn]

I just did "rm *" in the wrong directory. sigh.

Comments

[zimzat.livejournal.com]

Hmm... yeah. Whenever I get my hands on a new environment I specifically go into ~/.bash_aliases and add alias rm='rm -i'. I figure I can always add -f and that will give me enough thought of what I'm doing to perhaps catch slip-ups. I can't say I've had that problem any time recently.

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've done that. It didn't save me the last time I did this. I don't type "rm *" unless I'm sure. So when asked, I said "Y".

[mayaknife.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who used to put an empty file named '-i' in any directory which he *really* wanted to be sure he didn't accidentally blow away. So any 'rm *' in one of those directories would turn into an 'rm -i' and he'd have a chance to avert catastrophe.

Re: Bad to worse

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oi. but fortunately you have daily backups, yes?

Re: Bad to worse

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

I couple of hours work was lost, but it was mostly stuff cut and pasted from elsewhere so it is easy to recreate.

I haven't done the rm * thing in a very long time.

Re: Bad to worse

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

I keep two directories with the stuff I'm working on and one of those is usually on a second computer. I rarely lose data.

This time, though, I'm writing code jointly. So I rarely have the most up to date code on my machine.

I typed "rm -a" in a terminal on the machine with the most recent code. Mostly what I deleted was the work the other guy did. I felt really bad. :)

I'll get it all straight again tomorrow.