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I have personally been saved by ZFS snapshots (multiple times!) because sometimes I do dumb things, like running:

    rm -rf tmp *

Instead of:

    rm -rf tmp*

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I never do "rm prefix" in a dir. I always do "rm ./aDir/prefix" for example. This assures I'm not globbing outside a directory (or just a directory) and tries to help assure I'm not shooting my own foot.

Yea, i love up 1 directory before I delete anything.

> i love up 1 directory

It took me a minute, but I assume this should be "move up". This seems like a good habit.

Yes, i typed the reply on my phone and it autocorrected to that. :(

I just never do rm. Always use GUI file manager and have 0 problems.

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