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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Tried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a complete moron, I should've had that backed up and used trash...
I had to learn the hard way lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What an awesome tool that I wish I knew sooner. Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Also the && operator in sh. I think you can figure out what happened.

I'm guessing something like... Copy file/dir from location A to location B and then delete from A, but the copy had failed (and the delete unfortunately worked fine)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I left the last sentence open ended, for comedic effect, but if you really wanna know:

I transcoded videos with ffmpeg, and tried to exit out of the bash script with ctrl C. the script was something like:

for
    ffmpeg file finishedFile;
    rm file;

my ^C broke out only from ffmpeg and before I realized what happened the file got removed and the next ffmpeg call filled my terminal. I tought the key didn't register, or something was stuck, so I pressed it again.. and again.. it cost like 45minutes of footage, wasn't that important tho.