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

Harry Phillips harry at tux.com.au
Mon Aug 18 18:49:12 EDT 2003


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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.
> 
> 

I run Mandrake and in my /etc/profile.d/alias.sh file there is a line:

alias rm="rm -i"

It makes every rm interactive without having to specify it on the 
command line.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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