On Friday 02 January 2004 15:09, Richard Eibrand wrote:
> Happy New Year and all that business. I just got a distress call from a
> friend of mine, who was doing a bit of coding on the bus.
>> He inadvertantly mixed up his command line call to g++, and passed an old
> object file as the source code, and the source code file as the -o output
> name.
>> The short of it, his source code is gone bye bye, and he [bad man] had not
> ,made any recent backups of his file, nor had he used cvs or rcs [/end of
> bad man].
>> Is there any way he can recover his source code file?
He MIGHT get somewhere by using grep on the entire partition where the source
file was. I think there may also be tools available which are better suited
than grep to searching through entire disks, but no names come to mind.
--
Niall
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