how do you undelete files in linux?

[holycow]

how do you undelete files in linux(redhat and gentoo)? i accidentally delete some files and i haven't had a chance to back it up before the deletion..

 

[n0cmonkey]

If you deleted them through KDE or Gnome, there might be a trash can or something. I don't know. If you deleted them on the command line, you can try various file recovery tools. But general consensus is, don't make mistakes.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Generally, you can't.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Something I did when I started using Linux was to alias the rm command. I created something like ~/.trash, and aliased rm to mv $1 ~/.trash or something. Can't remember exactly, maybe it was a script like that. Either way, I'd have to remember to delete everything from ~/.trash on occassion

 

[NewBlackDak]

They're only retrievable if nothing else has been written to that block on the HDD. Generally, you're just screwed.

What I do is make a "~/.trash" directory. I have a script that when you type rm it really mv's the files to ~/.trash

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You could just make a function and stick it in your shell's startup scripts:

rm () {
mv $* ~/.trash/
}

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
You could just make a function and stick it in your shell's startup scripts:

rm () {
mv $* ~/.trash/
}

That's neat.

 

[NewBlackDak]

Actually I just have an alias now that is surprisingly similar to that.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Functions do a great job of filling the space between aliases (too simple) and scripts (too lazy to create a file and whatnot).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Functions do a great job of filling the space between aliases (too simple) and scripts (too lazy to create a file and whatnot).

I'd never seen that before. I don't pay attention to most shell things though. Might have to play with it sometime, just for fun. See if it works on pdksh

I usually keep a ~/admin directory around with most of my "common" scripts.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It's standard bourne shell function syntax, so it should work on pdksh.