Shekhar Govindarajan's Blog » undelete http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com My Notepad on the Web Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Recycle bin (trash can) for Linux console http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/tips-n-tricks/recycle-bin-trash-can-for-linux-console/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid=&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recycle-bin-trash-can-for-linux-console http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/tips-n-tricks/recycle-bin-trash-can-for-linux-console/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:10:37 +0000 Shekhar http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/?p=5 The Linux desktop (GNOME/KDE) has a Trash Can. But what about the command line or the console ? Especially, while working with Linux servers we often work on the command line (typically connect to the server via SSH) and one may end up deleting files by accident.

That’s where libtrash comes to help. Download it from http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/libtrash/. I used to use it long time back when, once, I deleted some important files from my laptop and none of those wonderful undelete utilities worked. Today I again deleted a file by accident. Though this time I had a backup, I got reminded of this wonderful utility. It still seems to be updated and maintained, somewhat – it was last updated in Jan 08.

Installed it on my laptop running Fedora 9 following the instructions in the readme file (found after extracting the tar.gz archive). And it worked (again)!

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