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    [–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Once upon a time, I accidentally created a folder named "~" in my home folder (the company provided scripting framework would inconsistently expand variables, so the folder had a ton of stuff inside it).

    I ran "rm -rf ~" and only panicked when I started to wonder why it wasn't taking too long.

    Good news is that it only managed to get halfway through my local checkout of aosp before I stopped it. Bad news was that it nuked most of my dotfiles.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

    You forgot the -r just like always.