Its an interview question. I just want to know the answer of below question.
1) How to list deleted files in unix
It depends on how you deleted the files in Unix. And what tools you have at your disposal. If you use the built in rm then it is lost, but see below. If you use the desktop file manager (dolphin for KDE, thunar for xfce, etc) then they will be in a "trash folder" accessible by the file manager. As RavinderSingh13 points out you can write your own tool that can save "deleted" items until you properly flush them away.
But no matter how you delete them, if your system has locate and the locate database has not been refreshed yet (it normally refreshes overnight), you could try this:
I'm not sure the sort is required with locate. What you will get is a list of lines unique to first file, or if you prefer, a list of files that have been removed since the last refresh of the locate database.
This assumes the files were there overnight, otherwise locate won't list them.
You don't ask about recovering files, but provided the file system is backed up every night the files can be restored from the backup "tape".
Hi Experts,
by mistake i deleted some files that are very important to the project.
is there any way that i can recover those files,there is no backup for that but the details of the file we know.
This will be a great help.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want to put all the deleted files in a txt file. Because i want to backup my image server which has thousands of jpg images. I wrote a shell script which will copies images from image server to backup image server. I setup a cronjob which runs on every five minutes. & through timestamp it... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using Fedora Core and Windows Xp. I deleted all the files from root
directory. When i am trying to restart the computer it showing some grub > prompt. What i will do ? I have lots of data in XP OS.
Please help me
i used
# rm * (8 Replies)
Hello. I am having a problem and I was wondering if I could get some help from here. I changed into a directory with the cd command and I wanted to delete a folder and all of its subdirectories, so I went ahead and did a rm --recursive * in my current directory to realize that I was in the wrong... (3 Replies)
Just looking for some guidance on how to figure out who might have deleted some files off one of my systems.
These files are not root owned files so could be deleted by a handful of folks in the group responsible for these files besides the root users.
Anyway I have been tasked with trying to... (1 Reply)
I copied all JPEGs from my laptop to an external drive using
find . -name "*.jpg" -exec cp '{}' ./media/Backup/pictures \;
And then deleted all of them from my laptop.
Now, I realize that I need the folder path of all the original JPEGs as the path has the important information.
I dont... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have to find the files from a directory . But the file names are different.
for ex.
MONTH_AP_TEST_DATA_<timestamp>.dat
MONTH_PAY_TEST_DATA_<timestamp>.dat
PARTIAL_AP_TEST_DATA_<timestamp>.dat
PARTIAL_PAY_TEST_DATA_<timestamp>.dat
MULTIPLE_AP_TEST_DATA_<timestamp>.dat... (5 Replies)
Good evening, i need your help please
I've got a file script thet deletes about half millions of files, and i want those files to be printed in a log file as an evidence those files were removed.
#/bin/sh
rm "/home/e-smith/files/users/bill/Maildir/cur/1392373930.28512.comp01:2,S"
rm... (6 Replies)
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tracker-tag
tracker-tag(1) User Commands tracker-tag(1)NAME
tracker-tag - Add, remove and list tags.
SYNOPSIS
tracker-tag [OPTION...] FILE [FILE...]
tracker-tag [OPTION...] -t [[TAG] [TAG] ...]
DESCRIPTION
tracker-tag allows the caller add tags, remove tags and list tags by URN or to list all tags and the files associated with them.
The FILE argument can be either a local path or a URI. It also does not have to be an absolute path.
OPTIONS
-?, --help
Show summary of options.
-l, --limit=N
Limit search to N results. The default is 512.
-o, --offset=N
Offset the search results by N. For example, start at item number 10 in the results. The default is 0.
-r, --or-operator
Use OR for search terms instead of AND (the default)
-t, --list
List all tags. Results include the number of files associated with that tag and the tag's unique identifier. You can show the files
associated with each tag by using --show-files.
The TAG arguments are optional. If no TAG argument is specified, all tags are listed. If one or more TAGs are given, all matching
tags are listed. For example, this will match any tags named either foo, bar or baz:
$ tracker-tag -t foo bar baz
-s, --show-files
Show the files associated with each tag. This option is ONLY available WITH the --list option.
-a, --add=TAG
Add a tag with the name TAG. If no FILE arguments are specified, the tag is simply created (if it didn'talready exist) and no files
are associated with it. Multiple FILE arguments can be specified.
-d, --delete=TAG
Delete a tag with the name TAG. If no FILE arguments are specified, the tag is deleted for ALL files. If FILE arguments are speci-
fied, only those files have the TAG deleted.
-e, --description=STRING
This option ONLY applies when using --add and provides a description to go with the tag label according to STRING.
-V, --version
Print version.
SEE ALSO tracker-store(1), tracker-sparql(1), tracker-search(1), tracker-info(1).
GNU July 2009 tracker-tag(1)