I’m a complete moron, I should’ve had that backed up and used trash…
I had to learn the hard way lol

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Reason’s I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that’s sometimes not enough.

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just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.

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Reasons to have backups more like. No need to make life hard

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Your life isn’t my life, and restoring backups is no less a hassle just for having them(personally, I backup files, and either fix what I break or do a clean install). Auto-complete also makes me lose my train of thought, but if its helpful to you, enjoy.

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Did you just disagree and then agree in the same sentence

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I should’ve […] used trash

For those who don’t know: trash-cli

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It upsets me to no end that this isn’t a standard package 😭

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What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

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Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

I’m guessing something like… Copy file/dir from location A to location B and then delete from A, but the copy had failed (and the delete unfortunately worked fine)?

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I left the last sentence open ended, for comedic effect, but if you really wanna know:

I transcoded videos with ffmpeg, and tried to exit out of the bash script with ctrl C. the script was something like:

for
    ffmpeg file finishedFile;
    rm file;

my ^C broke out only from ffmpeg and before I realized what happened the file got removed and the next ffmpeg call filled my terminal. I tought the key didn’t register, or something was stuck, so I pressed it again… and again… it cost like 45minutes of footage, wasn’t that important tho.

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if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it

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Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.

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Save space probably

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Yeah my system was running out of space and I wanted to free a bit quickly. Turns out the issue was Rust building 20GB of binaries and I should have deleted those instead.

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Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.

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But… why?

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I was in a rush to free up space. Rust’s binary sized can be really huge and they were taking up like 20GB at the time, but I was unaware of this.

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