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by graylights 4344 days ago
The proper answer is to type "rm <dir> -rf" otherwise you're risking a stray strike on enter.
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The other proper answer is to have a good backup and recovery system.
> The other proper answer is to have a good backup and recovery system.

And, of course, that should've been the solution to OP's incident with the Korean Airlines flight 007. Backups, surprisingly, are scarcely mentioned at all in this whole thread.