Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

By mistake, executed the following command :

rm -rf *

and ALL files got deleted.
But I need to get back these files as they are very very important.
Please help me how to recover this file. Its Urgent for me please.

Thanks in advance.

You can try :
Linux.com : ext3undel
if you FS is ext3 .
I am not sure if it will work , though . Restore from backup , if any , this is the safe way .

What O/S are you running?
What filesystem type do you use?
Is your computer up or down?
Were you logged in as user "root" at the time?
What was the current directory at the time of issuing the command?
Did the command fail?
Do you have a backup?

ran the command in unix
command succeed
computer is on
no backup for current files
also i didnt logged in as root while executing the command

The unix command "uname -a" should tell you what Operating System you are running.
In general there is no "undelete" in unix.
If you know what files you have lost and you have no backup, the only recourse is to re-create the files. Has your Systems Administrator got a recent backup?

hhmm...i guess its a lost case.
the files cannot be recreated because these are log files which gets created during the course of the program run and once it reaches sizes over 50mb another program creates the archive file. back up is scheduled once a day, so all files which got deleted after backup run is lost i think.
Anyways thanks for taking time to look into this.

Because you don't run the command by root, maybe you don't lost any files.

Where do you run the command, from / or other path?

command "rm -rf *" don't give prompt , if you have not permission on it.

Code:

       -f, --force
              ignore nonexistent files, never prompt