On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:51 +0100, Christian Lange wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I just wanted to type "rm *~" to kill the backup files in my folder.
> Accidently, I slid of the key and mistyped the command. So it became
> "rm *" an all my data is los. Under MS-DOS there is a command called
> "undelete" which one can use to recover data. How is the command under
> Suse Linux 10.0?
>  
Which is why I always recommend to people to use rm -i -if- they are
using -any- wildcards at all. It might be a pain in the butt to answer
'y' for each file but in this case you would have saved more than just
time.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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