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Re: Suggestion for rm(1)


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Suggestion for rm(1)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:20:30 +0000

On 10 March 2010 14:17, C de-Avillez <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:08:33 +0000
> Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 2010/3/10 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
>> > How about just doing: s/is usually/might be/
>>
>> That seems to me to go a little too far towards reassuring the user
>> that the data has probably gone. We want to say two not obviously
>> conflicting things:
>>
>> 1. After rm the data is most probably still there.
>>
>> 2. After rm it's probably quite a bit of trouble to recover it.
>>
>
> How about "... it might be possible, but not easy, to recover ..."?

I am also trying to convey the fact that an expert can offer recover
deleted data quickly *and* easily.

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