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Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by throwaway8941 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:18AM (#22298210)
For tmux users: put something like this in your .tmux.conf on production servers:

    set -g window-style 'fg=red,bg=black'
It will color the text red, hopefully reminding you to be extra careful. Adjust according to your preferences.

One other "defensive scripting" trick I frequently use is starting any `rm` command with `ls`, double checking its output (or triple checking if it's a recursive one), and then replacing `ls` with `rm`. It barely takes any extra time if you're proficient with emacs-style readline hotkeys:

    C-a M-d rm C-m
Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by gryfft on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:47AM (#22298855)
In this vein, I set my PS1 to bold red capital letters on bastion hosts and alias sudo="echo 'You're on a jump box moron :p'"

I do the tmux color trick too-- color coded by environment for each bastion.

Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by PeterisP on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#22302155)
Something like this to obviously distinguish environments is good practice - at one company we implemented scripts for terminal color-coding like this after some downtime caused by a destructive backup restore accidentally being run in the production environment instead of an acceptance testing system, which was in all aspects identical to the production system.

And I've seen a solution for more secure environments where physical separation was used with the operator having separate monitors/keyboards, and the "important" system having a different color keyboard and monitor frame.

Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by KajMagnus on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:26AM (#22298696)
That's nice — I usually start my commands with `# ` but then there's no tab completion. I'll try `ls`
Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by davedx on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:00PM (#22300022)
We do this for our database connections in Azure Data Studio / the Windows version of it. Really great idea.
Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too by leni536 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:29AM (#22298714)
I usually use echo for the same purpose.