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linux recycle bin?
!@#$% I was working with a project at /home/user/project/
while working some how i did rm -rf /home/user/project/ w/o knowing it until I hit "enter". !@#$% hours of my working x_x . After I hit enter i just realized I just did something really stupid x_x
Luckily I have an old backup but .. still many hours I just did today. Is there anyway to sort of recover them? Or how to prevent stupidly do rm -rf like me 
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There isn't a native recycle bin on linux. Sorry. Install trash-cli for a recycle bin.
Unless you have physical access to the drive; AFAIK there's no way to recover your files.
not really a big deal since i can redo everything again but im so pissed of myself right now ~
Well same as in Windows - if you delete from console file are marked as deleted from FS, not moved to recycle bin. If you use GUI/DM in Linux, something like KDE, it might have a recycle bin implemented.
Apart from what was already suggested, in your case you can try undelete. But its really not a recycle bin, undelete instead.
http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/
@namhuy
GAME OVER
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The files are deleted from the filesystem, the only way is to scalpel them out, if they are not overwritten in the meantime. Anyhow, even in the best case scenario - a long, resource consuming, nerve wrecking procedure.
I think that it is for the best to just to do it over again.
If I typed rm -rf /home/user/project/ without knowing it, I'd start to worry.
@sleddogsleddog thats what happens when you work in front of the screen from no day light to sun rise x_x. I didnt know about trash-cli, i should try it later.
I accidentally typed rm -rf / --no-preserve-root. Bad? [/ironyoff]
trash-cli is pretty easy. Another possibilty is undelete but I'm not quite sure how it works. (I think it's name was undelete)
May want to start reviewing .bash_history each morning
Use "safe-rm". It warns you if you want to delete important files/directories. Don't forget to add your project folder to its blacklist.
Project site: https://launchpad.net/safe-rm
Originally at: http://code.google.com/p/safe-rm/
Other tricks can be found here.
It sucks when this type of stuff happens. I once lost all my data because the hdd died randomly while i was working on something. I've learnt to keep a backup all the time since then. Right now I use git and push changes to the dev branch every time i make a significant change. When i was using windows, I was using dropbox to autosync all the files in my project directory, but this might not be the best thing to do since i was always running into problems.
http://askubuntu.com/a/265992