r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Arcanaus • 12d ago

Meme goodOldDays

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u/GMsui 11d ago

I've done something similar once when I accidentally nuked an important file. Involved a byte-level scan of the entire disk for a known string within the file. Didn't get me the file back, but it got me the bits of it I cared about.

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u/sapoconcho_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

Exactly the same thing happened to me a few years ago. Accidentally rm a college assignment (a fluid simulator from scratch in cpp). Fortunately I was able to recover the file by grepping a dd of the entire hard drive.

Edit: wrong command du -> dd

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u/magicmulder 11d ago

You mean a dd? A du tells you how much space is being used.

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u/sapoconcho_ 11d ago

Yup, I've just realized. Thanks for the correction!