Hello community ! Ken Schneider wrote:
I just wanted to type "rm *~" to kill the backup files in my folder. Accidently, I slid of the key and mistyped the command. So it became "rm *" an all my data is los. Under MS-DOS there is a command called "undelete" which one can use to recover data. How is the command under Suse Linux 10.0?
Which is why I always recommend to people to use rm -i -if- they are using -any- wildcards at all. It might be a pain in the butt to answer 'y' for each file but in this case you would have saved more than just time.
That's why I use the "alias" feature of bash to set the "-i"-option for most of the "dangerous" commands dealing with file on CLI level ... alias cp='cp -pi' alias mv='mv -i' alias rm='rm -i' Unfortunately this is not the help the original poster needs now ... -- Never give up ! Best regards, Reinhard.