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[Kresimir]

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always quote all of your paths

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This is especially valid point when doing stuff like rm

Yeah, that reminds me of this:

How to Install Apps from AUR

Oh yeah, there was a ridiculous example of a GitHub project that had a script deleting some config file in the user’s home directory or something like that. However, the command to delete it had one unintended space character in it and so it would delete the entire home directory. It was something like rm -rf ~/ .config/some_file instead of rm -rf ~/.config/some_file. Several people lost all their data because of that program. I can’t remember what it was, but there was a post about it here on …

A single space in an unquoted path passed to rm can cause devastating data loss! Never drink and script!