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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:46:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: Getting back deleted files
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In-Reply-To: <397656D5.9745B93B@cmr.uq.edu.au>; from Ben.Lawrence@cmr.uq.edu.au on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:33:09AM +1000

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:33:09AM +1000, 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.

I'm not sure whom you are addressing this to, but there is certainly nothing
stopping you from writing this utility.

Cygwin, being a UNIX emulation, is going to stay with emulating UNIX's rm command.

cgf

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