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