I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production

Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by maweki on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:45AM (#31274028)

How is the system different after the first and after the second call?

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by jgoldshlag on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:53AM (#31274140)

If there is an rm executable in the current directory, and also one later in your PATH, the second run might use a different rm that could do whatever it wants to

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by dotancohen on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:35AM (#31282397)

This is actually a likely scenario, as it is common to alias rm to rm -i. Though your bash config will still run after .bashrc is nuked, some might wrap with a script instead of aliasing (e.g., to send items to Trash).

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by hansel_der on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:53AM (#31283318)

# rm rm

rm: command not found

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