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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:04:23 -0400
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: question about rm
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At 12:55 PM 9/18/2001, David Monk wrote:
>Does rm in cygwin have any failsafe for dumb users?
>
>If a user accidentally deleted a file with rm is there any way to restore
>it?


rm has the same protections under Cygwin that it does under *nix.
See "rm --help" or the man page on rm for more details.



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