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Well fuck.<\/p>\n
I’m one fell swoop, I managed to delete 1.7TB of data from my media streaming PC. I was trying to do something that would save me a few MB, if that, and fix a minor source of irritation. It ended up biting me quite stupendously in the ass.<\/p>\n
Note to future self. When using Linux 1-liners,please be wary of positional arguments and always RTFM!<\/p>\n
find \/multimedia -name *.txt -delete<\/pre>\n: removes all text files found under path \/multimedia<\/p>\n
find -delete \/multimedia -name *.txt<\/pre>\n: removes 1.7 TB of data<\/b><\/p>\n
From the find(1) man:<\/p>\n
\nWarnings: Don’t forget that the find command line is evaluated as an expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And then you cry.<\/p>\n
But what about your backup, you ask? Well, I do have one, but it’s 6-month out of date, which is not a major thing, and it’s also currently in a location that is difficult to access. Alternative measures are being taken to restore the data.<\/p>\n
It’s not a critical loss. I’ll get most, if not all, the data back. Its just incredibly frustrating and involved a serious sphincter-clench, followed by an Oh-shit-I’m-stupid moment I could have done without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well fuck. I’m one fell swoop, I managed to delete 1.7TB of data from my media streaming PC. I was trying to do something that would save me a few MB, if that, and fix a minor source of irritation. It ended up biting me quite stupendously in the ass. Note to future self. When…<\/p>\n