Undelete In Linux

Manuel Arriaga writes "[To the editors: I am not a professional programmer, nor will I ever be one. My income does not depend on my computing/programming skills, and hopefully it never will. So promoting free software I wrote does not help me in any financial way, no matter how indirect. libtrash is free software (GPL2), and I distribute it for free from my website. I have nothing to gain from the increased exposure, except for knowing that I am helping others. And I know slashdot isn't freshmeat... With that out of the way:] I have seen this topic discussed in the LKML multiple times by now, and many more people asking in the newsgroups why "I can't recover my deleted file on GNU/Linux". Here is my answer to that question. libtrash gives Linux a real "trash can". And it has been doing so (with varying degrees of stability) for more than one year now. If you consider it appropriate, make this information public on slashdot."

Comments

Re:Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them?

[the way, what're you]

In linux you might do something like rm *a*b*c*.* That command can delete anywhere from 0 to all of your files depending on how they are named. And if you accidentally type *a*f*c*.* you might delete the wrong thing.

Yeah, it's a bitch when you try to delete "hot_asian_blowjob_cumshot.avi", but accidentally wipe out "young_anal_fucktoy001.mpg" through "young_anal_fucktoy999.mpg".

Article too verbose.

[wunderhorn1]

Editors (hemos), couldn't you have done a little editing and taken out his quaint but wordy disclaimers? He addressed those sentences specifically to you anyway, leaving them in for everyone to read just looks amateurish and is annoying to read through while looking for the actual story.

Thanks.