Recovering truncated file

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I'm in a peculiar situation. While editing a Perl program I accidentally truncated the file to zero length using an Emacs lisp code I was developing. I need to recover that program... how do I do that?

I tried debugfs utility, but that was of no help because the program wasn't deleted, but rather truncated to zero length & then saved by the lisp code without a prompt.

I didn't try any other utility cuz I assumed they'll work for deleted files using rm command only... Would they work ? — Punit Arya, Feb 22 '14 at 07:58
Roll back from the commit to your revision control system? Restore from backup? — Anthon, Feb 22 '14 at 08:36

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 22 '14 at 13:20

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Ok I did it myself.

$ strings /dev/sda6 | grep -C 329 "print PICOTABLE" > strings.out

edited Feb 22 '14 at 13:20

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answered Feb 22 '14 at 08:52

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Recovering truncated file

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