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by rav 452 days ago
I often run rm -rf as part of operations (for reasons), and my habit is to first run "sudo du -csh" on the paths to be deleted, check that the total size makes sense, and then up-arrow and replace "du -csh" with "rm -rf".
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Use trash-cli and additionally git commit the target if you’re nervous before deletion.