[kwlug-disc] Successfully recovered a deleted file

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Tue Jan 20 01:47:31 EST 2015


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:14:26AM -0500, B.S. wrote:
> But short of an accidental 'mv *.mdwn /dev/null' how did you manage to lose
> the file? (I can't see 'ls *.dwn > /dev/null' being intended, for swapping
> in mv with /dev/null appended to be likely.)

If he had 2 (and only 2) files with .mdwn extension, then 'mv *.mdwn'
will clobber the latter.  Otherwise, 'mv' will error out.
-- 
William





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