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In article <Cv0z7D.Apr@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
Kamal Shaker <shaker@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote:
>Help!!!! I just deleted all the stuff from a directory
>and I need to get it back!!! Is there anyway?!??
>
>Bloody rm *>o instead of rm *.o

Commiserations.

I've done that a couple of times, but fortunately, always on my MS-DOS
and umsdos mounted partitions.  I then reboot, and use undelete from
DOS.  Yes, it's a kludge.

Three other things you can do, are:

 o alias rm to "/bin/rm -i".  This won't affect any of your shell
   scripts, etc, because the alias is local to the interactive environment
   of your shell.  Sure, you'll get the prompt for every file, and you
   won't feel quite so much like a power user, but it's insurance.

 o There are hooks and toggles in the ext2 fs code for undeleting files.
   They haven't been written yet, but don't let that stop you writing
   them.

 o run the strings(1) command on /dev/hd?? to try and find where the
   data is, and recover it that way.  Alternatively, look at the ext2 with
   Norton Utilities under DOS (launch with the /M maintenance switch), and
   search for your data that way.

Hope this helps your otherwise precarious position.

Mitch.