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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:27:05 -0500
From:      george donnelly <list@zettai.net>
To:        talon <talon@datastorm.kicks-ass.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: recover overwritten file
Message-ID:  <BA5557D9.19B3D%list@zettai.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E2F7415.4030807@datastorm.kicks-ass.org>

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[talon commented on 1/22/03 11:48 PM]

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Iv been there :)
> 
> This probably sounds stupid but i do it ...
> 
> file name /bin/rmx
> 
> #/bin/sh
> cp $1 /tmp/`$1`
> rm -r $1
> 
> I call it the recycle bin LoL

Thanks for everyone's comments. I got mighty lucky as I had a 5 minute old
copy of the file hanging around on another disk. And as someone mentioned, I
did learn a very important lesson. Wow.

btw I think your recycle bin is a good idea and am going to implement it.

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