Re:$ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install
by eigenhombre on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:05PM
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I did something similar working at the South Pole about 20-25 years ago:
rm -rf * .some-extension
Missed the extra space, hit Enter, lost several days of work. Much smaller blast radius, but still an expensive mistake for a trip like that. No, it wasn't in source code control - a few of us might have been using CVS at that time (this was before Git's time), but apparently I wasn't, or I wouldn't remember the episode decades later.
rm -rf * .some-extension
Missed the extra space, hit Enter, lost several days of work. Much smaller blast radius, but still an expensive mistake for a trip like that. No, it wasn't in source code control - a few of us might have been using CVS at that time (this was before Git's time), but apparently I wasn't, or I wouldn't remember the episode decades later.