Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).
A terminal confirmation prompt that prevents you from accidentally damaging remote hosts. - crocuda/boulette
Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root). launched on January 10, 2025 with 74 votes, #420 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Boulette is a protection tool designed to prevent accidental system damage, even for users with root access. It works by intercepting and blocking dangerous commands before they execute, making it useful for developers and system administrators who want safeguards against costly mistakes. The tool is open source and available on GitHub for users who need an extra layer of safety when working with critical systems.
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From the sources
You finish your night coding session by typing shutdown -h now in a terminal. Boulette prevents you from accidentally damaging remote hosts by raising a warning prompt on dangerous commands. The prompt simply asks for user confirmation, and can also enforce a challenge resolution to decide whether to resume(or abort) the command. Prefix a critical command with boulette and a confirmation prompt will show up. As an example we will use the shutdown command however every command can be bouletteproofed . boulette " shutdown -h now " Create an alias to replace the command with the bouletteproof one. See the Write aliases section. ask , which is the default ( --challenge ask ). You have to type…from github.com
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