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I'm a complete moron, I should've had that backed up and used trash...
I had to learn the hard way lol

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

I should’ve had that backed up

Absolutely! IT's time to check out Stow now. With this you can easily manage your configuration and dotfiles (and all other data) in a single location.

https://venthur.de/2021-12-19-managing-dotfiles-with-stow.html

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago

I’m a complete moron,

You are not,
Every person learning with the hardway isnt a moron,

You have to do, to really learn,

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I should have had backups of important files in my home directory

Lessons learned the hard way

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

But... why?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I should’ve […] used trash

For those who don’t know: trash-cli

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 minutes ago

What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 38 minutes ago

It upsets me to no end that this isn't a standard package 😭

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 hours ago

if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it

[–] notprogrammer@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

Save space probably

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Reason's I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that's sometimes not enough.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Reasons no have backups more like. No need to make life hard

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.