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Old 10-13-2010
Accidentally removed a script
I accidentally rm a script (typo) and it doesn't even show up in the trash. Is there any way I can recover?
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Old 10-13-2010
Does your sys admin do backups? Maybe you can find parts of it in a dump of ther raw device or on your xterm scroll history?
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Old 10-13-2010
I don't believe so

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It's an NFS partition, might the disk blocks still be in tact if I have not written anything to the disk since?
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Old 10-13-2010
That is why you might find it on the raw device, and the pages would be randomly located. You might pipe the raw device through cat -vt and then tr some unlikely characters to be line feeds and then use more to search for script bits.

I use to use a script editor script that put my changes, if any, away in SCCS before and after editing. I use an xterm with a huge scroll buffer. I back up my source dir ~/mysrc/ automatically every night to a zip. I have a HISTSIZE=32767 ksh command history, and back up .sh_history peridically. I have been here too many times.
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