files recovery after rm?

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Fri Nov 10 13:46:54 AEST 1989


In article <20551 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo at unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore)
writes:
>Nope. You just aren't allowed to rm. So then you unalias rm and 
>really remove the file. Then source .tshrc and start over. Or use
>"rm" to defeat the aliasing.

  Either "\rm filename" or "/bin/rm filename" will delete a file using
the real rm, even when rm is aliased to something.  Unalias'ing rm,
then removing the file using "rm filename", then sourcing .tshrc (I
thought it was .tcshrc?) all over again is killing a fly with a
sledge-hammer.

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