F-ing up myself is part of my routine. I always rm files that I don’t mean to (obviously not always but it happens). So I think it would be nice to have separate ‘delete’ permission. With that I could protect my files from accidental 'rm’s. What’s your opinion
alias rm=trash-clior shelltrash or something.Alias rm to a flag that makes you affirm. On my phone, can’t be bothered to look at a man page.
alias rm=“rm -i”
Not a perfection solution, but one idea might be to use a rework of rm that places deleted files into a “trashbin”(just throws them into the tmp folder), so you can at least easily undo deletes
https://github.com/nivekuil/ripI love tools like this. Thank you for sharing.
Daily backups. Then you can have as much wild ambition as you like. Disk failures do not care for your permissions bits anyway.
Practically though, one thing I find that’s a good habit to get into is to use
rmdiron directories that you know should be empty instead ofrm -rf. If you’ve made a mistake and try to delete the wrong folder, it’ll error out.Are you running on btrfs? If not, why not? If so, install snapper and grub-snap or refind-btrfs, or whatever, and go wild.
Sounds like you might also be missing backups, but snapper you can have run every 10 minutes at almost no overhead. Then it won’t matter if you delete something; you can always grab it out of a snapshot.
This is really user error, but if you want to be insane instead of using a proper workflow to prevent things like this: https://www.howtogeek.com/790679/how-to-use-the-chattr-command-on-linux/
you could also make an alias for rm that just move things to the trash bin thingy
And then get screwed over when you’re using another system without said alias. As I need to work on multiple different linux-hosts both as a selfhoster and on work I’d strongly suggest against aliasing any system command to something else and getting used to it.
yeah i can 100% imagine myself doing that, probably a good idea not to lmao
Yeah, there are a dozen “trash” commands. Honestly, I think changing muscle memory would be safer, but they could just install one of the trash commands and set up an alias as you say.
These days if the file is write protected, you get prompted for whether you really want to remove it. I don’t know when that change appeared or whether it’s universal.
No thats how it works. It hasnt changed. But lemmy hit you with my experience. I have ‘notes’ Dir. I write a lot. So I want myself ‘write’ permission but ‘delete’
