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is there and undo rm -rf command? 6
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farley,
Sorry but Venkman is the bearer of bad news.
There is both elegance and power in an Operating System that does exactly what you tell it to do when you tell him. However the downside is that if by any chance you do a mistake it can be drastic. Sorry about that.
Gary Haran
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Sorry but Venkman is the bearer of bad news.
There is both elegance and power in an Operating System that does exactly what you tell it to do when you tell him. However the downside is that if by any chance you do a mistake it can be drastic. Sorry about that.
Gary Haran
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Actually, I was just being lazy... I believe there are ways to bring data back from the data. A preliminary google search came up with this link:
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Yes, and its easy to implement. Here's the steps.
1: find where rm is located on your system (/bin/rm)
2: cp /bin/rm /bin/remove
3: rm /bin/rm # ;-)
4: mkdir ~/.garbage
5: Make a shell script that moves target file(s) to ~/.garbage
There's your "undo". Just move files back from your .garbage directory. to truly remove files, use "remove". Be aware, that many scripts will use rm and fill your .garbage "bin".
Good luck. Prayer also helps ;-)
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1: find where rm is located on your system (/bin/rm)
2: cp /bin/rm /bin/remove
3: rm /bin/rm # ;-)
4: mkdir ~/.garbage
5: Make a shell script that moves target file(s) to ~/.garbage
There's your "undo". Just move files back from your .garbage directory. to truly remove files, use "remove". Be aware, that many scripts will use rm and fill your .garbage "bin".
Good luck. Prayer also helps ;-)
Please let Tek-Tips members know if their posts were helpful.
Just to expand on Krale's tip, I did something similar to that a couple years ago on a server that I'm admining (too many users that don't know what they are doing, and too many typo's). Since the backup directories were filling up too fast, and using too much valuable disk space, I extended my scripts to update a small database and keep track of which garbage folders had files added to the recently, and then had a daily script that would simply delete anything that had been in the trash for more than 2 buisness days. I find that gives the users enough time to realize they deleted that report that the absolutly need,but keeps enough disk space that I don't have to keep shuffling data around.
franklin97355
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And don't log on as root. Things could be worse.
Oh come on, does no one besides farley like my response 
. You have to admit it's much cooler to actually physically inspect the hard drive to recover files than to impelement an Apple/MS/KDE/GNOME type recycle in. I mean it may not be as reliable, but it's a little more mission impossible isn't it?
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. You have to admit it's much cooler to actually physically inspect the hard drive to recover files than to impelement an Apple/MS/KDE/GNOME type recycle in. I mean it may not be as reliable, but it's a little more mission impossible isn't it?-Venkman
Venkman you had a great response and I like it. Sorry I didn't say it earlier, but at the time I was thinking on how to emplement the garbage. It could be a handy trick
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