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Saturday, 21st August 2010

Undelete! How to undelete a file accidentally removed using rm on Linux, by grepping through the raw bytes on the hard drive searching for a unique string that was contained in the file. “grep -a -B 25 -A 100 ’some string in the file’ /dev/sda1 > results.txt”

# 10:56 am / linux, sysadmin, recovered

2010 » August

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