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rmtrash
Put files (and directories) in trash using the `trash-put` command in a way that is, otherwise as `trash-put` itself, compatible to GNUs `rm` and `rmdir`
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
There are tools explicitly designed for stuff like this, like rmtrash and alias rm=rm -i. However, like everything, tools aren't a foolproof solution: they can only help from making accidental mistakes.
A nasty bug/quirk/oversight in Steam managed to nuke somebody's computer (limited to user owned files, but still pretty annoying): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
A typo in a Bumblebee install script nuked /usr: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
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