I'm tired of my Downloads folder filling up, so I usually have a startup script that empties it. This has actually been really helpful!
Make it a habit!
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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At least you finally cleaned up that Downloads directory
Didn't get, you removed everything from the /tmp folder?
Wild card is on the wrong side of the /tmp argument
There is a wild card * that will remove everything in the current directory (and remove /tmp too)
Oh, so he deleted his download folder, not that bad I guess
Oh, it's been a while that my rm -r * .o taught me about backups.
oopsies! 😬
The worst I have done is wipe out my home directory. Backups are good, I was able to copy everything back and it was like it never happened
You're in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
I remember this lol, to be fair no one knew how the guy managed todo it, because steam(the launcher) has checks for that, they assume the guy tried to run the steam command instead of clicking the launcher(don't do that)
Holy... Fuck... That is scary AF!
rm: remove [file name 1]?
I ran the command without sudo first. It had a bunch of permission errors removing stuff in /tmp. So I retried but with sudo
/tmp is world-writable. If you get permission-errors, you should become suspicious.
Also, whenever you write "sudo rm -rf" you should quadruple-check if that's really what you want to do.
Non-interactively deleting entire directories in root space isn't something you should have to do normally.
Agreed, I should have been more careful. Fortunately it was just my downloads folder.
In wanted to clear my /tmp, because I'd run out of space there for extracting an ISO file. It lives on a tmpfs, so space is quite limited.
/tmp might be world writable but everything created in there belongs to the respective users.
TIL. Makes sense, though.
Exactly! if a service running under root creates a file, it belongs to root. if that file has permissions that don't allow other users to write (most do), then you can't delete it without sudo afaik
godspeed
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The other classic blunder
Never going in with a Sicilian when death is on the line?
The third one
Never send the Baltic Fleet into battle?
Keep going, almost there.
Pop goes the weasel?