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Subject: Re: recover overwritten file
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Duncan Anker wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:16, george donnelly wrote:
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|>hi
|>
|>i just overwrote a critical file, can anyone andvise me on how to recover
|>it?
|>
|>thankyou

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Iv been there :)

This probably sounds stupid but i do it ...

file name /bin/rmx

#/bin/sh
cp $1 /tmp/`$1`
rm -r $1

I call it the recycle bin LoL
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