On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan Sayer wrote: > FreeBSD- > Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid > of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code > by using sed. They said to execute sed "s//^m^m" index.html > > index.html or something like that. This got rid of everything in the > file. I really need this back, so any help would be greatly > appreciated.
NEVER NEVER NEVER do 'sed 'foob' myfile > myfile'. ALWAYS redirect sed output to a temp file, then mv the temp file to the original file. As someone else mentioned, your file is probably gone. It *may* be possible to recover the data, or it may not. Here is a link that might be useful in giving examples of recovering lost data on UNIX systems: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1441/sam0111b/0111b.htm Your ability to recover the data will depend on a combination of luck and amount of disk activity since the overwrite. I don't know enough about the internals of FreeBSD to know if there are any tools for lost file recovery. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
