I’m a complete moron, I should’ve had that backed up and used trash…
I had to learn the hard way lol

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      Type a space before rm to prevent it from being added to your history to be a extra careful.

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        Holy shit, I never knew you could do that! I’ve always really wanted a feature to stop random commands from being added to my history.

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          Some shells provide ways to prevent some commands to be added to the history

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          Set the HISTCONTROLvariable. If it is set to ignorespace then commands entered with a leading-space will not be stored in the history.

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      rm -r *

      Also, if you have to type that, don’t use the numpad: / is only one key away from *. If you finger snags the / key on its way to * and you happen to be root, your root partition will go bye-bye.