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- From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
- Subject: Re: user command to recover deleted file ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.213707.25050@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:37:07 GMT
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- In article <3533@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> hongman@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Guo Hongman) writes:
- >
- > can any tell if there is user command to recover deleted file ?
-
- Yes. Try 'tar xvf /dev/tape filname'.
-
- Seriously though, once the file is deleted it is gone. The best you can
- do is to alias the rm command to something that just moves the file to
- someplace else. The un-rm command would then just move the file back.
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