A couple months ago I had to recover some rm'd files by basically grepping 512-byte blocks on the file system for the file headers then writing out the next few

A couple months ago I had to recover some rm'd files by basically grepping 512-byte blocks on the file system for the file headers then writing out the next few KB to a file on a separate partition to manually go through.. My command sequence was more like this though, rather than a straight rm: find -name '*.java' | xargs grep --color 'something' # guh, get rid of these old copied .svn dirs polluting output find -name '.svn' | xargs rm -rf # now what was that.. find -name '*.java' | xargs rm -rf Forgot to edit the right side of the pipe back to the grep. Zealous use of the up-arrow burned me...