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!  :-)
>
>
>   

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