rsync is cool and stuff but I soooo frequently want to just copy a directory into a place but I absentmindedly leave in the trailing '/' from the tab complete so rsync copies over the *contents* of the directory instead of the directory itself
I have filled up home directories with garbage so many times
#linux #rsync #shell
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