Re: undo rm -rf *

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 15:40 +1100, Celik wrote: > > In this thread, it has been suggested to do daily backups. But it > > wasn't > > clear, should the daily backups be for the whole system or only the > > current > > project we are worki

RE: undo rm -rf *

-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Callaghan Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 4:04 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: undo rm -rf * On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 15:40 +1100, Celik

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 15:40 +1100, Celik wrote: > In this thread, it has been suggested to do daily backups. But it > wasn't > clear, should the daily backups be for the whole system or only the > current > project we are working on? Only you can answer that. Ask yourself what you can afford to lo

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 17:40 +1100, Celik wrote: > > At some point a > > > > > pseudo-rm is going to fail, either because the implementer didn't > handle > > > some corner case correctly, or because you typed rm instead of nrm, or > > >

Re: undo rm -rf *

Am 30.03.2013 04:18, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens: >>> On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive: Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: >> this is safe since a very long time >> >>>

Re: undo rm -rf * (Patrick O'Callaghan)

On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 21:32 -0700, Rick Walker wrote: > "nrm -s" keeps a fine-grained horde of every deleted file - even > multiple deletes of the same file! The strategy works so well, that > I'd seriously propose the .gone strategy as a kernel option. Then all > "unlink" calls would use the sam

Re: undo rm -rf * (Patrick O'Callaghan)

> > > pseudo-rm is going to fail, either because the implementer didn't > > > handle some corner case correctly, or because you typed rm instead > > > of nrm, or because a file was removed by a program without anyone > > > typing anything, and the only solution is to have a backup. So if > > > yo

Re: undo rm -rf *

Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens: On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive: Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: this is safe since a very long time [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .* /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove direc

Re: undo rm -rf *

Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.03.2013 17:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100, Celik wrote: Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative solution to using "rm -rf"? "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tediou

Re: undo rm -rf *

Celik wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:57 PM, jarmo mailto:oh1...@nic.fi>> wrote: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:23:29 +1100 Celik mailto:celik.n...@gmail.com>> kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current > working directory. Any

Re: undo rm -rf *

Celik wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Bill Oliver mailto:ven...@billoblog.com>> wrote: The last time this happened to me, I had some luck using sleuthkit: http://www.sleuthkit.org/ As you noted, installing new things on your computer is destructive to deleted files.

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On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 17:40 +1100, Celik wrote: > At some point a > > > pseudo-rm is going to fail, either because the implementer didn't handle > > some corner case correctly, or because you typed rm instead of nrm, or > > because a file was removed by a program without anyone typing anything, >

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At some point a > pseudo-rm is going to fail, either because the implementer didn't handle > some corner case correctly, or because you typed rm instead of nrm, or > because a file was removed by a program without anyone typing anything, > and the only solution is to have a backup. So if you're g

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 23:58 -0700, Rick Walker wrote: > > > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > > > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > > > about a simple script something like this? > > If you want something a bit more po

Re: undo rm -rf *

Cool. I'd never heard of it. billo On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Rick Walker wrote: I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What about a simple script something like this? If you want something a bit m

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Rick Walker wrote: > > > > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > > > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > > > about a simple script something like this? > > If you want something a bit more pol

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> > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > > about a simple script something like this? If you want something a bit more polished, you might check out "nrm", available at http://www.omn

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On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 14:25 +0530, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > Reminded me of another dangerous habit some people get into - exiting > 'vi/vim' with ':wq!' always. I've seen similar with the Word word-processor, some users would be asked to save changes to the document as they quit, and always click on

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > about a simple script something like this? This is off the top of my > head and not tested (so

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On 03/27/2013 11:28 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent: >> as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do >> when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the >> results would be... > > I would, also, think carefully about whether

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Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent: > as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do > when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the > results would be... I would, also, think carefully about whether you really do need the force flag. Some pe

Re: undo rm -rf *

Am 26.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Rick Stevens: > On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive: >> >> >> Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: this is safe since a very long time [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .* /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove dir

Re: undo rm -rf *

On 03/26/2013 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald issued this missive: Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: this is safe since a very long time [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .* /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.' /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..' Does this not

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guys... as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the results would be... and finally, before you do a "rm" .. make sure you have a complete backup that you can restore from, in the event you really do trash so

Re: undo rm -rf *

I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What about a simple script something like this? This is off the top of my head and not tested (so certainly has a bug or two), but it seems that you could chec

Re: undo rm -rf *

Am 26.03.2013 18:03, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: >> this is safe since a very long time >> >> [root@testserver:/tmp]$ LANG=c; /usr/bin/rm -rf .* >> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '.' >> /usr/bin/rm: cannot remove directory: '..' > > Does this not depend on where in the tree you are and what

Re: undo rm -rf *

The "dd" command is a workhorse, sorta like netcat. The answer to "can you use if for copying/backing up XXX" is essentially always "yes." However, it's not convenient for some things. For instance, it copies *files.* Even though the old unix cant is that "everything is a file," it turns out

Re: undo rm -rf *

On 03/26/2013 09:11 AM, Celik wrote: Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative solution to using "rm -rf"? Use ls first, and find out exactly what you're going to delete. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

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On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 17:21 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 26.03.2013 17:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100, > > Celik wrote: > >> > >> Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative > >> solution to using "rm -rf"? > >> "rm -i" is

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 17:21:28 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: and how yoill you remove all hidden files of a folder? For cases where I just want dot files/dirs removed I use '.??*'. That only hits names at least three characters long. this is safe since a very long time [root@testserver

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > The last time this happened to me, I had some luck using sleuthkit: > > http://www.sleuthkit.org/ > > As you noted, installing new things on your computer is destructive to > deleted files. It's a good idea, if you can, to make an image of

Re: undo rm -rf *

Am 26.03.2013 17:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100, > Celik wrote: >> >> Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative >> solution to using "rm -rf"? >> "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious if >> the

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:11:54 +1100, Celik wrote: Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative solution to using "rm -rf"? "rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious if there are a lot of files to be deleted, hence "rm -rf" seems ideal

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 22:23:29 +1100, > Celik wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current >> working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? >> > > I've done worse. I once did rm -

Re: undo rm -rf *

The last time this happened to me, I had some luck using sleuthkit: http://www.sleuthkit.org/ As you noted, installing new things on your computer is destructive to deleted files. It's a good idea, if you can, to make an image of your disk asap and then work on that image. What I have done

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 22:23:29 +1100, Celik wrote: Hi, Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? I've done worse. I once did rm -rf .* to try to remove some config files in a home directory. I forgot that .

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > There are a number of utilities that will attempt this for you. > Google "undelete ext4 linux" assuming your filesystem is ext4. > > Gary, thank you for the information. Installed testdisk and exundelete. In

Re: undo rm -rf *

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:57 PM, jarmo wrote: > Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:23:29 +1100 > Celik kirjoitti: > > > Hi, > > > > Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current > > working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? > > > > Regards, > > C > > Just try to find your B

Re: undo rm -rf *

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:23:29 +1100 Celik kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current > working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? > > Regards, > C Just try to find your BACKUP :)) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

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There are a number of utilities that will attempt this for you. Google "undelete ext4 linux" assuming your filesystem is ext4. However, as your system is used the now unallocated space is being re-used reducing any your chances of success. Even installing an uninstall utility will do this, as

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ohhh dear...:( thanks for the quick reply. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 26.03.2013 12:23, schrieb Celik: > > Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current > working directory. Any tips for undoing such > > an error? > > no way on a modern

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Am 26.03.2013 12:23, schrieb Celik: > Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current working > directory. Any tips for undoing such > an error? no way on a modern system which permanently writes to the disk and the journal, in other words this is the hard way to learn abou

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Hi, Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error? Regards, C -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gui