Undo in Unix

[Muktha]

Hi all,

Is there any undo command in unix?Just undo the previous command.
Suppose I had removed 1 file.Can I retrieve it back?

Could you please advice me?

Regards
Muktha

[Sajjad Sahir · Accepted solution]

Dear Muktha

There is no "undo" function in UNIX. So if u are removing a file careful about it.

thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi Muktha,

There is nothing called "undo" in unix, if you deleted any file from your system,
to retrieve that file you need to restore from your previous backup media.

Suraj

[Muktha]

Thank you very much Sajjad , Suraj for your quick reply.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[Muktha]

Thank you very much.
I got it

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Unfortunately unix does not have "recycle bin" kind of things in it. Unix will do whatever you are asking to do.

It is always preferred to use interactive option(rm -i) for file removal.

Hope you are having backup to restore the file which is deleted by mistake.

[Srimalik]

you can move the original rm(/bin/rm) to a different location your own version of rm copied to /bin/ which when called won't delete the file but move it to /.recyclebin/ (say).

You can have one more command called unrm which will restore a file from /.recyclebin to the original location.

You can also have an option(--please-consider-shift-pressed) for your rm command which will call the original rm and remove the file.