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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

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217 points tanelpoder | 1 comments | 17 Mar 21 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.458s | source
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johnchristopher ◴[17 Mar 21 18:51 UTC] No.26495328[source]▶
I don't trust the terminal and myself so much that I when I rsync a remote folder to a local folder I use sshfs to mount that remote folder in read-only mode and rsync from that mount point rather than the remote folder.
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1. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[18 Mar 21 18:19 UTC] No.26505726[source]▶
Heh...back when I was taking an Intro to Linux class for my CS degree, the instructor was teaching us rsync, and he somehow accidentally nuked his entire home directory.

My lesson I took away from that was to not use rsync because it's too easy to get it wrong and lose a lot of data.