Bash

Sh 1 2 #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail The first statement is a Mac, GNU/Linux, and BSD portable way of finding the location of the bash interpreter. The second statement combines “set -e” which ensures that your script stops on first command failure. By default, when a command fails, BASH executes the next command. Looking at the logs, you might feel that the script executed successfully while some commands might have failed....

Yes, it did happen, and no, I am not stupid enough to execute rm -rf *. It was a bit more convoluted than that. I was trying to prepare a customized SD card image for the Android emulator. The fastest way to do that was to mount the SD card on my GNU/Linux machine and modify the files. The files on the SD card have root as the owner. Therefore, the easiest way to maintain a clean state was to make all modifications using sudo....