How to Delete and Recover Files in Linux

Linux is a reasonably famous Operating System especially among programmers. The default file system in Linux is known to be intolerant when it comes to user mistakes, but using the method described in this post, you will be able to recover any data that you lost or accidentally deleted.

Deleting Files In Linux

Deleting a file in Linux is quite simple. You just have to right-click the file icon (which you want to delete) & then click the “Delete” option in the context menu. If you are working from the command console or terminal, the delete command is “rm” for remove. The “rm” command accepts a number of parameters which can be both unsafe and extraordinarily useful. The most famous parameter pair is “rm -rf”. This command deletes everything that’s present inside the specified folder, recursively (r). Moreover, this command does not ask you to confirm the deletion of each file. This means that you can accidentally delete the entire File system. This could be dangerous in some cases.

There is no recycle bin in Linux. So if you delete a file, It will no longer be available on your hard disk. Other operating systems however, usually have a recycle bin, which is just a folder where all the deleted files are preserved where they can be recovered or permanently deleted from there.

Recovering Files in Linux

Linux is famous for being customizable, there is a little tweak that can be made that will add the recycle bin functionality. You can simply add an alias to their.bashrc file, in a user’s home directory, that overrides the rm command. The alias is as follows:

alias rm=’mv –target-directory=$HOME/.Trash’

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