Recovering deleted files using grep

4 January 2015

If you accidently deleted a text-file, you might be able to recover it using grep:

$ grep --binary-files=text --context=x 'stringfromyourfile' \
    /dev/whateverPartition > someFile.txt

x are the lines before and after the string.

I found this idea on this blog.

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