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
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I’m a complete moron,
You are not,
Every person learning with the hardway isnt a moron,
You have to do, to really learn,
I should have had backups of important files in my home directory
Lessons learned the hard way
I should’ve […] used trash
For those who don’t know: trash-cli
What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.
It upsets me to no end that this isn't a standard package 😭
But... why?
if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it
Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to "de-bloat".
Save space probably
Reason's I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that's sometimes not enough.
Reasons no have backups more like. No need to make life hard
just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.