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Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you didn't use the recursion flag this wouldn't be to bad

[–] beardedmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

in hindsight I should have just changed into the directory directly first then used chmod without needing the full path. Or run the flag that asks you to confirm each transaction or dry run. I'm a much smarter idiot nowadays.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

would that mean it doesn't affect anything other than top level files ?

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yea without the R flag it only does the file (and since folders are files in Unix...)