• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

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    Or the (probably, IDK) more common way to do it accidentally, cd into /, think you’re somewhere else or type into the wrong shell, and then rm -rf *

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      15 hours ago

      A safe approach is to go up one dir ectody and run rm -rf dirname. With that habit you have high confid3nce of deleting folder you need.