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I usually use .bak... .old seems so... old.
An old manager of mine's backup solution was a cronjob that appended .old to every file then made a copy of the most recent one. So he had: file, file.old, file.old.old, file.old.old.old, ...
lol ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Evolution:
Sigh...
git revert HEAD
echo \*.json.\* >> .gitignore
git commitconfig.conf
config.conf.backup
config.conf.testing
config.conf.old
config.conf.default
config.conf.example
Gmail says sending myfile.zip is not allowed.
Change it to myfile.zip.txt and everything is fine.
It may be due to their processing.
Better base64 -w 0 myfile.zip > myfile.zip.txt
If it works though ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
Fuck it. What's the worst that could happen?
Oh.
Did this with PAM the other day and nearly locked myself out.
I like adding a backup function to .profile that can take a file or list of files as an argument and make a copy with a date suffix on the file name, and same date additional backups just add a character like ~ at the end. It's in version control, but if I'm testing a change it's just faster to restore the file from a copy in the same place.
Obligatory note that /etc/profile and ~/.profile are only run by login shells, and many terminal emulators do not execute a login shell by default.
Unfortunately, there is no standard secondary place* that all shells execute, so check your chosen shell's manual for what it does run on startup and put your functions into one of those. Preferably one that goes in your homedir.
Alternatively have that file source ~/.profile assuming that won't cause an infinite loop.
* And not even a primary if you count *csh, but if you use those you have other problems.
i so agree. i have a script that copies all file arguments into the directory .backups/YYYY-mm-DD-HHMM/ ... handy for risky git operations too.
*~
But you should really have a backup system. And often you should have a version control system too.
Use etc-keeper, saves everything in a git repo and integrates with a bunch of package managers. Been using it for decades it feels like now.
Bet the world would be a happier place if we had cartoon physics
Lower gravity by 20x, bam, instant cartoon physics.
Acceleration would be 0.50 m/s^2
.bak is good, ranger even hides files with it
This is what I've always used as well
Speaking of which, nowadays KDE hides files with these extensions for some reason
It's just a playful thing dolphins do ๐.
Rename to .old
Bam file is gone.
??? Confused look.
The heck?
Ctrl + h
Oh there it is!
I never really have hidden files off, so I wasn't even aware dolphin does this lol
I absolutely despise the idea of "hidden" files. I don't understand the purpose of not showing them.
It's useful to hide clutter. It's easier to look at the file you care about when the file~, file.old, .file.swp, #file#, file,v, etc. aren't in the way.
Use NixOS
People here really hate our distro for some reason. Isn't it just Arch with extra steps (and all the configs in one file)? Everyone likes Arch! The definition of Arch is extra steps!