[H-GEN] Help! Is there any advice on recovering deleted files?

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Nikolai Lusan wrote:

> Lastly let me say if rm -f caused your problem it was becaus you passed
> it a bad argument or no argument at all, I would recomend you read very
> very carfully before pressing enter on an rm line and/or use the -i
> option.

Another good idea is to take advantage of the fact that expansion is done
in the shell in unix (unlike in MS-Windows).  As a result you can use ls
to list the files that you think you want to delete with rm.  The list
generated will be the same with both commands.  This is particularly
useful when you want to pass a complicated expansion to rm.

Rob

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