On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, tom carlile wrote:
> ok, so i was cleaning up my old hd that was mounted
> on /opt, and i stupidly typed:
> rm -r /usr/share;
> when i meant rm -r /opt/usr/share;
> well, i stopped it after only a few moments had passed.
>
> my question is about the nature of rm, how does it
> do its dirty work? i assume it removes files alphabetically;a
> so to minimize the damage i would reinstall whatever package
> is the highest alphabetically and still there and then try
> to determine what else would be before it.
> i was fine with this last night, but now i am getting some
> emacs errors that its missing some extensions.
> i am wondering if the rm started working on all the dirs
> at the same time...this would make my situation much worse.
neither, it works in inode order mostly, or more specifically the order
returned by readdir. It also works depth-first because it has to :)
If you're using a Linux that has packages, just -V[erify] all the packages
and you can generate a list of packages with missing files to restore.
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