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I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.
I fairly recently tried to do a
rm match*but accidentally put a space between thematchand the*โฆReminds me of the time when I bind mounted my home dir in a chroot, then
rm -rfed the chroot when I no longer needed it...Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn't have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people's work.
Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.
Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.
Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....
Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.
I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify
rmto follow symlinks nowadays.