2010/3/10 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com>: > On 10/03/10 13:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> >> rm(1) says, quite correctly: >> >> Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to >> recover the contents of that file. > > How about just doing: s/is usually/might be/
That seems to me to go a little too far towards reassuring the user that the data has probably gone. We want to say two not obviously conflicting things: 1. After rm the data is most probably still there. 2. After rm it's probably quite a bit of trouble to recover it. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org