In Unix systems, the tilde (~) represents the user's home directory. This poor soul created a literal directory named "~" instead of referencing the actual home directory. Then they proceeded to delete it with rm -rf ~/ which doesn't delete the wrongly created directory - it recursively deletes everything in their actual home directory. That "Stopped thinking" at the end is the exact moment they realized they just nuked all their personal files. Classic case of "I'll just quickly fix this" turning into "time to update my resume."
Silly Mistake, Permanent Solution
7 months ago
336,532 views
0 shares
linux-memes, unix-memes, bash-memes, rm-memes, terminal-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
More Like This
🤬
4 years ago
133.6K views
0 shares
Vibe Coder Turned Dev
2 months ago
345.3K views
0 shares
OS Internals Books Are Wild
6 months ago
465.7K views
0 shares
Loading more content...
AI
AWS
Agile
Algorithms
Android
Apple
Bash
C++
Csharp