Saving private files

Shashank Sharma is a superhero whose superpower is rescuing deleted files. He has many useful tools in his utility belt, such as Rip2.

Deleting files is easy, and while rescuing them is possible, the process is quite involved and not foolproof. GUI users have the luxury of recovering files from the trash folder, but this isn’t available for the CLI out of the box. Written in Rust and released under the GPL3 licence, Rip2 is a replacement of the rm command. In the utility’s terminology, all deleted files are sent to the graveyard, usually /tmp/graveyard-$USER, from where you can recover them with ease. This is distinct from the xdg-trash spec, which is what defines how files in the GUI are deleted and relegated to the trash folder. You need Cargo, Rust’s package manager, to install the latest release of Rip2, as the project isn’t available in the software repositories of most popular desktop…

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