On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mario Lang wrote: > > Does Linux have some kind of an undelete command, and might it be > > called urm for consistency? > > No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). infact yes, there are 2 demian packages that claim to undelete fiels but only on ext2fs one is called recover, the other I don't remember. But I agree with mario that linux is for people who know what they are doing. Needless to say, I did an rm -rf * as root in / once ;(
> > I wonder if a shell could have unlimited undo capabilities like many > > graphics or sound editors do. a shell is only an interpreter of commands, no mroe no less. > > One way to achieve something like that at least partially would be > > to flag things to be done and then have some special commit command > > that could also be rolled back if something goes wrong. you're to database-minded :) > Yeah, and where do you get the diskspace from? > If I, as a Linux user, rm some file, I *want* it gone, immediately. > Everything else would be highly anoying, at least to me. > That is like using Java, since it will prevent your most stupid > programmers from harming your company too much. I still maintain > the viewpoint, that as a boss, you rather should fire your most stupid > programmers, instead of using Java. BUt thats just me. you refer to it's sandbox model nodoubt ;) -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
