How To Undelete Files?

[the_profiler]

need help.. i had accidentally executed "rm Untitled *" at the location/directory [/home/user1].. and obviously it had removed all of non-folder stuffs in that directory/folder..

is there an easy way to recover those files?

Thanks in advance!

[smfinley]

Its not easy in Linux, but see this.

[ms1234]

Returning them from your backups?

[SHtRO]

I strongly urge you to add this to your .bashrc:

alias rm=rm -i

This is (or was) stock on many distributions, but not Fedora. You can override the -i flag with -f should you ever want to do that. Most properly written shell scripts account for this variation.

This won't recover your files, but it will help to prevent such mishaps.

[Tashiro]

Moved to General Support.

Tashiro

[kosmosik]

most Linux filesystems do not support undelete... you can use libtrash to implement something like Recycled folder in Windows...