In Praise Of –Dry-Run

Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by aappleby on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:20PM (#46843018)

What if the tool required an "un-safeword" to do destructive things?

"Do you really want to 'rm -rf /'? Type 'fiberglass' to proceed."

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Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by jabroni_salad on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:00PM (#46843489)

There is a package called molly-guard that makes you type the computer's hostname when you are trying to do a shutdown or restart. I love it.

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Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by nthdeui on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:31PM (#46843065)

Like tarsnap's --nuke command:

  --nuke  Delete all of the archives stored.  To protect against accidental
          data loss, tarsnap will ask you to type the text "No Tomorrow"
          when using the --nuke command.

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Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run by drougge on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:44AM (#46846950)

Probably inspired by Vinum's "NO FUTURE" for destructive operations. (Vinum was a raid system used on older versions of FreeBSD.)

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