Re: Shells and Syntax Again
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mario Lang wrote:
> > Does Linux have some kind of an undelete command, and might it be
> > called urm for consistency?
>
> No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-).
infact yes, there are 2 demian packages that claim to undelete fiels but
only on ext2fs
one is called recover, the other I don't remember.
But I agree with mario that linux is for people who know what they are
doing.
Needless to say, I did an rm -rf * as root in / once ;(
> > I wonder if a shell could have unlimited undo capabilities like many
> > graphics or sound editors do.
a shell is only an interpreter of commands, no mroe no less.
> > One way to achieve something like that at least partially would be
> > to flag things to be done and then have some special commit command
> > that could also be rolled back if something goes wrong.
you're to database-minded :)
> Yeah, and where do you get the diskspace from?
> If I, as a Linux user, rm some file, I *want* it gone, immediately.
> Everything else would be highly anoying, at least to me.
> That is like using Java, since it will prevent your most stupid
> programmers from harming your company too much. I still maintain
> the viewpoint, that as a boss, you rather should fire your most stupid
> programmers, instead of using Java. BUt thats just me.
you refer to it's sandbox model nodoubt ;)
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