Deleted home folder

[Aravisian]

@dasjdoom

Went to my home folder, used the up arrow to recall some commands but accidentally recalled that previous remove/delete command as sudo, hit the enter to fast and yes --- All gone. Had to reinstall my system.

Something to avoid with the recurrsive rm -rf command

We all know about the powerful but dangerous rm -rf command, that will recursively remove all files within a directory. If run in the wrong directory by accident, it can wipe it out and if run from /, you will lose every last bit of your operating system. For many, it is a command best avoided as there are other options. I am a person that in the terminal, am in the habit of hitting the up-arrow-key to access a previously entered command in order to repeat it. The other day, i did something un…