How can I know what subfolders rm -rf attempted to delete first?

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I mistakenly run rm -rf on a wrong folder and than cancel the operation after two seconds. The folder is quite big with many subfolders and maybe 1% was deleted.

How can I know what subfolders rm attempted to delete first? That can help me to determine what files I need to restore.

This does not answer your question, but might help you somehow: http://superuser.com/questions/150027/how-to-recover-a-removed-file-under-linux (How to recover a removed file under Linux?) — douglaslps, Oct 31 '13 at 13:07

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '13 at 17:14

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Won't be easy to restore names of already removed directories, but executing ls -l * probably will give a clue how shell expanded * wildcard.

answered Oct 31 '13 at 17:14

Druadan

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If that was the case, I got lucky. – user2783132 Oct 31 '13 at 18:30

How can I know what subfolders rm -rf attempted to delete first?

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