undo rm

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Ian Stephen:
> Hi all
> 
> Supposing someone working as root (su) typed
> 
> " rm -fr ./Some_directory/../*.* "

Whoops!

> How might this person get those disappeared things back?  Or even just
> find out what they were? Is it possible?
> 
> Hypothetically of course.  I'm not saying I did this...
> (ok fine, have a good belly-laugh.  Damn.)

In the absence of backups, you're probably hosed.

Kurt
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