On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 15:30 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Saturday 17 November 2007 14:40, Bryen wrote: > > Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Probably not, but > > thought I'd ask... > > The short answer is "no." There's no "trashcan" or "wastebin" involved. > Only with tremendous luck and heroic effort could you hope to recover > the contents of the file to which you applied the stock "rm" command. > You'd think, since I googled and see enough people have done this same thing accidentally, that a trashcan folder would be standard. Oh well...
> I've known users (dare I say, "lusers") to override rm with a script > that moves the target files to a trashcan folder. > Hmm... That would be an interesting project to try to create. What a way for me to flex my current knowledge and expand on it. :-) > > I don't suppose it will be long now before we have a Linux counterpart > to the latest Mac OS's "Time Machine" functionality. > > There's a python script that I downloaded a few weeks ago but haven't really tried it yet. It is supposed to mimic TimeMachine. It's called Flyback. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/flyback/ Maybe I better look at it again now before I screw anything else up! :-) -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
