There is a remote possibility if you haven't rebooted or done anything dramatic since the delete.
http://www.linux.com/articles/58142 Paul Bryen wrote: > 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! :-) > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
