What’s the last thing you’ve done that’s made you ask “Am I stupid?” (lemmy.world)

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago

Nearly executed wrong rsync command which would have overwrote/deleted the wrong files.

I don't remember what exactly it was, I just didn't want to rewrite the whole command so I took it from history, quickly checked it and executed it. Then I've suddenly seen the output and quickly killed it. I know my heartbeat went up, "Oh no! What the fuck did I do? I do have this backed up, right?"

Thankfully, the wrong rsync command I copied had -n in it. That means dry-run - display what would be done but don't perform the actions.
I guess I should always first do the dry-run and see if I am satisfied.
This time I was just lucky.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

have overwrote

have over-written

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