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Quote Your rm -rf Paths

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Cautionary story from the Three Lightning Talks lightning talk: the speaker ran an unquoted rm -rf command pasted from a Docker Desktop uninstall guide. The space inside the path meant two arguments, the second of which was 'desktop' relative to their home directory — wiping it out. No Time Machine backup, no recovery. Always quote paths in destructive shell commands, and keep backups.

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takeaway Quote Your rm -rf Paths
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Abandoned-first-talk cautionary story

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wroclove.rb 2026 Lightning Talks 2026-04-22 08:41