That's certainly something you can do! I would personally follow the recommendation against aliasing rm though, either just using the trash tool's auto complete or a different alias altogether.

Reason being as someone mentioned below: You don't want to give yourself a false sense of security or complacency with such a dangerous command, especially if you use multiple systems.

I liken it to someone starting to handle weapons more carelessly because the one they have at home is "never loaded." Better safe than sorry.

Lol we should have "rules of rm safety":

• Assume rm is always sudo unless proven otherwise.
• (EDIT)Finger should be off the Enter key until you are certain you are ready to delete.
• Never point rm at something you aren't willing to permanently destroy.
• Always be aware of your target directory, and what is recursively behind it!

After being bitten by rm a few times, the impulse rises to alias the rm command so that it does an “rm -i” or, better yet, to replace the rm command with a program that moves the files to be deleted to a special hidden directory, such as ~/.deleted. These tricks lull innocent users into a false sense of security.

F

(That's not going to help you, just paying my respects.)

/dev is just all bloat with stupid recursive directories

nice!

LOL

Joke's good enough it deserves a comment in addition to the upvote.

except if you read the accompanying text they already stated the issue by accidentally unpacking an archive to their user directory that was intended for the root directory. that's how they got an etc dir in their user directory in the first place

I think the home directory version of etc is ~/.config as per xdg.

It should be ~/.local/bin

I use ~/config/* to put directories named the same as system ones. I got used to it in BeOS and brought it to LFS when I finally accepted BeOS wasn't doing what I needed anymore, kept doing it ever since.

But may, just maybe, don’t assume everyone is a fucking moron or has no idea.

Well, OP didn't say they used Arch, btw so it's safe to assume.

(I hate that this needs a /s)

That's my current approach. Fedora Atomic, and let someone else break my OS instead of me.

You can still break your /etc folder. But many other folders are safe.

Personally I do both.

I get months of uptime on a ZFS NAS, though I'm not using Proxmox. I don't think it's the filesystem's fault, you might have some hardware issue tbh. Do you have some logs?

As a noob, those little wrappers are great.

Thankfully I don't hit the space bar randomly (yet) but btrfs snapshotting has saved the day for other mishaps

I hand-edited sudoers.conf day one on the job without using visudo

So in one day, I learnd both how to move a volume from one AWS VM and that there's no good reason not to use visudo.

I think they just mean you'd be prompted for a password, which should give you pause if you're supposed to be deleting items in your home folder.

life hack: alsways make a new directory to extract something in. that way you dont have to rm a bunch of random files, and maybe sone dotfiles you'll never notice or know where they came from

Unix aficionados accept occasional file deletion as normal. For example, consider following excerpt from the comp.unix.questions FAQ:
6) How do I “undelete” a file?
Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like:
% rm * .foo
and find you just deleted “*” instead of “*.foo”. Consider it a rite of passage.
Of course, any decent systems administrator should be doing regular backups. Check with your sysadmin to see if a recent backup copy of your file is available

“A rite of passage”? In no other industry could a manufacturer take such a cavalier attitude toward a faulty product. “But your honor, the exploding gas tank was just a rite of passage.”

There's a reason sane programs ask for confirmation for potentially dangerous commands

Btw, what's this about QWERTY to slow them down? Far as i know, it's to reduce finger travel?

I dont know if you use firefox on your phone, but i do, and i fucking hate it that i cant jump to a page or see the page number im on.

The handbook has numbered pages, so why use “page X of the pdf”?

Because the book's page 1 is the pdf's page 41, everything before is numbered with roman numerals :)

I also wasn't expecting anyone to try and read with a browser or reader that doesn't show the current page number