recover a lost file.....(aka, i messed up, hard)

[Thomas Beckett]

On 10/3/05, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/05, sjoeboo <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > mear minutes ago, while cleaning out some directories to tidy things up,
> > i mistakenly, removed 2 files, that well, are pretty crucial to me.
> > unfortumatly, this was done via the command line with good ol' "rm". it
> > is an ext3 filesystem and i was wondering if anyone knew of any
> > way/program to help me get these 2 files back. like i said they were
> > just deleted a minute or 2 ago, and, were small text files (php to be
> > more exact) any help?
> >
> > mat.
>
> I have used foremost for recovering deleted files from a compact flash
> card. I believe it will work with various file systems.
>
> http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
>
> Good luck!
>
> Todd

Foremost looks like it could be good, but to stop it happening again
could an alias be set up such as rm=mv $1 ~/.trash

I have no idea if this will work - Cant test it until i get home
tonight. Im also not sure if you can use parameters in a basic command
alias so you could possibly put

#!/bin/bash
mv $1 $home/.Trash

into a file and alias the rm to this to make a wrapper. This will only
work for a single parameter but im sure some of the bash gurus could
expand it to take into account any number of arguments passed and make
it better

Tom