I usually use .bak… .old seems so… old.
BAK IN MY DAY 👵👴
Yep I still add .bak to mine
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. . . (sigh…)
True story… happens all the time.
Gmail says sending myfile.zip is not allowed.
Change it to myfile.zip.txt and everything is fine.
It may be due to their processing.
Betterbase64 -w 0 myfile.zip > myfile.zip.txt
If it works though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An old manager of mine’s backup solution was a cronjob that appended .old to every file then made a copy of the most recent one. So he had: file, file.old, file.old.old, file.old.old.old, …
lol 🤣🤣🤣
Speaking of which, nowadays KDE hides files with these extensions for some reason
It’s just a playful thing dolphins do 😊.
.bkp_YYYYMMDD for me
Ah, yes, I also add dates sometimes, very helpful 👍.
And then wonder “wtf did I change them 🤔”.
Config files need git nowadays.
Fuck it. What’s the worst that could happen?
Oh.
I’m seeing this on oldsh.itjust.works, feels extra meta
I like adding a backup function to .profile that can take a file or list of files as an argument and make a copy with a date suffix on the file name, and same date additional backups just add a character like ~ at the end. It’s in version control, but if I’m testing a change it’s just faster to restore the file from a copy in the same place.
i so agree. i have a script that copies all file arguments into the directory
.backups/YYYY-mm-DD-HHMM/
… handy for risky git operations too.Obligatory note that
/etc/profile
and~/.profile
are only run by login shells, and many terminal emulators do not execute a login shell by default.Unfortunately, there is no standard secondary place* that all shells execute, so check your chosen shell’s manual for what it does run on startup and put your functions into one of those. Preferably one that goes in your homedir.
Alternatively have that file source
~/.profile
assuming that won’t cause an infinite loop.* And not even a primary if you count
, but if you use those you have other problems.
Is there a tool to version your configs? I use chezmoi for my dotfiles but that doesn’t help system configs
Etckeeper
Bet the world would be a happier place if we had cartoon physics
Lower gravity by 20x, bam, instant cartoon physics.
Acceleration would be 0.50 m/s^2
*~
But you should really have a backup system. And often you should have a version control system too.
Use etc-keeper, saves everything in a git repo and integrates with a bunch of package managers. Been using it for decades it feels like now.
Did this with PAM the other day and nearly locked myself out.
Use NixOS
People here really hate our distro for some reason. Isn’t it just Arch with extra steps (and all the configs in one file)? Everyone likes Arch! The definition of Arch is extra steps!