Delete yourself

[strider]

Say that you have a file ‘stuff.tar.bz2’ and a folder ‘stuff’ and you want to delete the folder stuff before extracting the archive.

In python you could do:

Code:

path = path_to_archive
path = path[:path.find(‘.’)]
delete_folder(path)

Well the fun thing is, if your archive is located in ~/.local/share or some other dot directory, the erased path is your home folder!

This is a friendly reminder to:

1) Do a dry run before running code that deletes stuff
2) Activate the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to quickly kill your session if needed
3) Setup Déjà Dup to backup your stuff daily or weekly

[linuxgnuru]

4) test on a virtual machine first

[strider]

linuxgnuru wrote:

4) test on a virtual machine first

That’s pretty much the same as doing a dry run except that replacing the delete function with a print statement is much quicker than having to setup your project on a VM.

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