urgent: I just rm-r a directory

[jan gestre]

On 8/7/06, Ian Lord <mailing-lists at msdi.ca> wrote:
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> I did a rm-r by mistake on a directory... any way to recover ?
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> Help please :(
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> _

if you don't have back ups of the directory concerned, i'm sorry to inform
you that you won't be able to recover it. a word of advise, at least make
the rm with -i switch to make it interactive, that way it will ask you first
before deleting, good thing though it's not your "/" you deleted :D