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Re: Suggestion for rm(1)


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Suggestion for rm(1)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:08:33 +0000

2010/3/10 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
> On 10/03/10 13:46, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>> rm(1) says, quite correctly:
>>
>>  Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to
>> recover the  contents  of that  file.
>
> How about just doing: s/is usually/might be/

That seems to me to go a little too far towards reassuring the user
that the data has probably gone. We want to say two not obviously
conflicting things:

1. After rm the data is most probably still there.

2. After rm it's probably quite a bit of trouble to recover it.

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