Lightning talk introducing safe-rm, a tool designed to prevent the accidental deletion of important files.

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HOW NOT TO DELETE
YOUR IMPORTANT FILES
François Marier <francois@safe-rm.org.nz>

2. tl;dr
apt-get install safe-rm

3. story

4. $ rm -rf /usr/lib/junk

5. $ rm -rf /usr/lib/junk
rm: cannot remove `/junk':
No such file or directory

6. $ rm -rf /usr/lib /junk
rm: cannot remove `/junk':
No such file or directory

7. recovery

8. #%@☠✮!!!
1- swear alot

9. 1- swear a lot
2- reinstall dpkg

10. 1- swear a lot
2- reinstall dpkg
3- reinstall apt

11. 1- swear a lot
2- reinstall dpkg
3- reinstall apt
4- list installed packages

12. 1- swear a lot
2- reinstall dpkg
3- reinstall apt
4- list installed packages
5- reinstall all packages

13. /bin
/etc
/home/francois
/usr/bin
/usr/lib

14. safe-rm

15. /usr/bin/rm

16. PATH="/usr/bin:/bin"

17. /bin/rm -rf /usr/lib

18. $ rm -rf /usr/lib

19. $ rm -rf /usr/lib
safe-rm: skipping /usr/lib

20. /bin /usr/bin
/boot /usr/include
/dev /usr/lib
/etc /usr/local
/home /usr/local/bin
/initrd /usr/local/include
/lib /usr/local/sbin
/proc /usr/local/share
/root /usr/sbin
/sbin /usr/share
/sys /usr/src
/usr /var

21. /etc/safe-rm.conf
~/.safe-rm

22. apt-get install safe-rm

23. THE END
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