i think the better way would be to replace rm with something that just moves files to a trash bin like how graphical file managers do it.
if you were just pulling the data back off the disk, and you didnt notice it IMMEDIATELY or a background process is writing some data, it could still be corrupted.
there was something like that i had on win3.2 called like undel.exe or something, but same deal, often it was courupted somehow by the time i was recovering the data
I usually don’t think about it at all, but every now and then I’m struck by how terrifyingly destructive rm -r can be.
I’ll use it to delete some build files or whatever, then I’ll suddenly have a streak of paranoia and need to triple check that I’m actually deleting the right thing. It would be nice to have a “safe” option that made recovery trivial, then I could just toggle “safe” to be on by default.
Honestly, after re-reading my own comment, I’m considering just putting some stupid-simple wrapper around mv that moves files to a dedicated trash bin. I’ll just delete the trash bin every now and then…
-Proceeds to collect 300 GB of build files and scrapped virtual environments over the coming month-
Then can alias rm to echo Use trash instead! or something. You wanna build new habits, not co-opt rm, it could happen easily that you’re ssh’d into a system where your rm alias doesn’t exist or similar
i think the better way would be to replace rm with something that just moves files to a trash bin like how graphical file managers do it.
if you were just pulling the data back off the disk, and you didnt notice it IMMEDIATELY or a background process is writing some data, it could still be corrupted.
there was something like that i had on win3.2 called like undel.exe or something, but same deal, often it was courupted somehow by the time i was recovering the data
I usually don’t think about it at all, but every now and then I’m struck by how terrifyingly destructive
rm -rcan be.I’ll use it to delete some build files or whatever, then I’ll suddenly have a streak of paranoia and need to triple check that I’m actually deleting the right thing. It would be nice to have a “safe” option that made recovery trivial, then I could just toggle “safe” to be on by default.
I think one solution is (browseable) Snapshots
Honestly, after re-reading my own comment, I’m considering just putting some stupid-simple wrapper around
mvthat moves files to a dedicated trash bin. I’ll just delete the trash bin every now and then…-Proceeds to collect 300 GB of build files and scrapped virtual environments over the coming month-
There are solutions already. Just use them instead of
rmhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trash_management
Then can alias rm to
echo Use trash instead!or something. You wanna build new habits, not co-opt rm, it could happen easily that you’re ssh’d into a system where your rm alias doesn’t exist or similar