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Oh no! 🤦‍♂️ (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So. Funny story. Back when I was incredibly new to Linux, I was trying to move everything from my downloads folder to somewhere else. So I navigated into the downloads directory on the command line and sent something like

"sudo mv /* ~/misc"

when I meant to type

"sudo mv ./ ~/misc"

Yea... That was a fun learning experience and hilarious way to utterly fuck everything on that machine. Luckily it was just an old laptop I'd installed Linux on to mess around and learn, no real damage done