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   ghorwood↙↙↙ (ghorwood@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 02:46:38 JST ghorwood↙↙↙

   back in the 90s, stacey lindburg taught me that when deleting from the prod db to always write the statement as a select first then edit it to be a delete after auditing it.

   this advice has saved my ass at least once a year since.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 05:50:31 JST Rich Felker

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     @mcc @ghorwood Actually I forgot the better variant I use, no cd needed. rm -rf ../dirname/*

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 05:50:32 JST mcc

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     @ghorwood That's really good advice…

     I do a similar thing where whenever I find myself doing an rm -rf I do a confirmatory `cd`, like:

     cd ../current_directory_name && rm -rf *

     The point of this is that if I'm in a directory *other* than current_directory_name when I run this command, the cd will fail and the rm will refuse to run. Helpful if (I do this) one often runs commands by quickly tapping "up" a few times and hitting return

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 05:50:32 JST Rich Felker

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     @mcc @ghorwood I never do rm -rf * so it's not in history. I'll instead do cd .. && rm -rf dirname/* or similar.