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From: ejfried AT california DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id: <200007200139.SAA06878@california.sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: Getting back deleted files
In-Reply-To: <397656D5.9745B93B@cmr.uq.edu.au> from Ben Lawrence at "Jul 20,
 2000 11:33:09 am"
To: Ben Lawrence <Ben DOT Lawrence AT cmr DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Cautious UNIX folk often alias rm to rm -i, so that rm always asks you
"if you're sure you want to do that." You must remember that other
folks -don't- want the behaviour you've described. The nice thing about
the UNIX environment is that you can customize things the way you'd
like them. So add

alias rm="rm -i"

to your .bashrc file.


I think Ben Lawrence wrote:
> > --- Ben Lawrence <Ben DOT Lawrence AT cmr DOT uq DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have accidently used the rm *.* command in cygwin1.1.0 on NT.
> > > Is there any chance of getting back my work?
> > > thanks,
> > > Ben
> > >
> 
> Hello again,
> I think it would be a real neat idea to modify the rm.exe so that
> rm file.xxx
> utility is actually
> mv file.xxx c:/cygwin/tmp
> 
> Also, whenever rm is invoked it would check the current date and the date of all
> the files in the c:/cygwin/tmp directory.  If all the files have yesterday's date
> or earlier, it would delete that whole c:/cygwin/tmp directory.  That way, any
> deleted files would be saved for at least a day.
> regards,
> Ben Lawrence
> Centre for Magnetic Resonance
> University of Queensland
> Australia
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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