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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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[–] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Type a space before rm to prevent it from being added to your history to be a extra careful.

[–] wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I never knew you could do that! I've always really wanted a feature to stop random commands from being added to my history.

[–] Edo78@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Some shells provide ways to prevent some commands to be added to the history

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For which shell? I just tried that on a bash system and the command was still stored in .bash_history 😔

[–] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Set the HISTCONTROLvariable. If it is set to ignorespace then commands entered with a leading-space will not be stored in the history.