On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 22:23:29 +1100, > Celik <celik.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current >> working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? >> > > I've done worse. I once did rm -rf .* to try to remove some config files > in a home directory. I forgot that .* matched .. and deleted a lot of stuff > I didn't want to. > Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative solution to using "rm -rf"? "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious if there are a lot of files to be deleted, hence "rm -rf" seems ideal but dangerous if not cautious :( Had a look on google, there was one particular recommendation that caught me attention (sorry I don't have the link). It was recommended to mv the files (and/or folders) to be deleted into a tmp directory. I'm planning to try that in my future code, we'll see how things go. Regards, C
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