How not to delete your important files

Lightning talk introducing safe-rm, a tool designed to prevent the accidental deletion of important files.

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1. No.43 HOW NOT TO DELETE YOUR IMPORTANT FILES François Marier <francois@debian.org>
2. tl;dr apt-get install safe-rm
3. story
4. # rm -rf /usr/lib/junk
5. # rm -rf /usr/lib/junk rm: cannot remove `/junk': No such file or directory
6. # rm -rf /usr/lib /junk rm: cannot remove `/junk': No such file or directory
7. recovery
8. #%@ !!! ☠✮ 1- swear alot
9. 1- swear a lot 2- reinstall dpkg
10. 1- swear a lot 2- reinstall dpkg 3- reinstall apt
11. 1- swear a lot 2- reinstall dpkg 3- reinstall apt 4- list installed packages
12. 1- swear a lot 2- reinstall dpkg 3- reinstall apt 4- list installed packages 5- reinstall all packages
13. /bin /etc /home/francois /usr/bin /usr/lib
14. safe-rm
15. /usr/bin/rm
16. PATH="/usr/bin:/bin"
17. /bin/rm -rf /usr/lib
18. # rm -rf /usr/lib
19. # rm -rf /usr/lib safe-rm: skipping /usr/lib
20. /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /initrd /lib /proc /root /sbin /sys /usr /usr/bin /usr/include /usr/lib /usr/local /usr/local/bin /usr/local/include /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/sbin /usr/share /usr/src /var
21. /etc/safe-rm.conf ~/.safe-rm
22. apt-get install safe-rm
23. https://launchpad.net/safe-rm THE END Copyright © 2014 François Marier <francois@debian.org> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.