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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users recovering a deleted directory Post 302478800 by Corona688 on Thursday 9th of December 2010 02:04:41 AM
Old 12-09-2010
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Originally Posted by COKEDUDE
I accidentally deleted a very important directory today with this rm -r. What would be the recommended way to recover my directory?
First off, stop writing to your home folder, at all. Unmount it if you can. Every write could be overwriting files you want back.

What is your filesystem, anyway?
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After a lot of googleing I have seen these choices. Could I get some recommendations please?
Testdisk
Photorec- Doesn't recover file name like I would like.
Is files with no names better than no files at all? I don't know a tool that can put back "rm -rf" like it never was, you deleted them so take what you can get. Depending on file type, there may be metadata in the files that'd help name them anyway.
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I have encrypted home directory.
You'll need to decrypt it into a format that looks like a normal volume for nearly any tool to touch it.
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Magic Rescue
Much the same idea as photorec, but more powerful, capable of extracting more kinds of files. Also sloooooooooooooooow.

Last edited by Corona688; 12-09-2010 at 03:15 AM..
 

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PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::QuoteLike - Quote-like operator abstract base class INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::QuoteLike isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element DESCRIPTION
The "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" class is never instantiated, and simply provides a common abstract base class for the five quote-like operator classes. In PPI, a "quote-like" is the set of quote-like things that exclude the string quotes and regular expressions. The subclasses of "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" are: qw{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Words `` - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Backtick qx{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Command qr// - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp <FOO> - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline The names are hopefully obvious enough not to have to explain what each class is. See their pages for more details. You may note that the backtick and command quote-like are treated separately, even though they do the same thing. This is intentional, as the inherit from and are processed by two different parts of the PPI's quote engine. SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.16.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)
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