Re: [tlug] Seriously? No undo for rm? No trash bin?

["Brenton Bills" <fud.fud@example.com>]

Welcome to Unix. Only if you delete something through gnome will the
files be put into the trash box. Maybe you want to add an alias rm="rm
-i" to make sure you really want to delete something.

On 4/9/07, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> Well, I've gone and deleted an entire directory of important stuff with
> "rm -r". Entirely by accident. Ironically it happened while I was trying
> to back the directory up.
>
> The thing is, I am certain that I have on occasion deleted something
> from the command line, and Ubuntu moved it into my trash bin. So
> initially, I wasn't to panicked.
>
> But this time, it just seems to be gone. There's nothing in the .Trash
> directory. No hidden files, nothing.
>
> I do have a back up of my data, but this latest rm command will have
> destroyed a few solid days of work.
>
> I looked on Google, and most things I read say that Linux is extremely
> unforgiving, and there is no way to reverse an "rm" command.
>
> It would suck so hard to lose this directory.
>
> Is there really no way? Why was Ubuntu able to move things to the trash
> before, and not now?
>
> Arrrrgh.....!
>
> --
> Dave M G
> Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
> Kernel 2.6.20-14-generic
> Pentium D Dual Core Processor
>
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