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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this
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In Unix/Linux, a removed file only disappears when the last file descriptor to it is gone. As long as the file
/usr/bin/rm
is still opened by a process (and it is, because it is running) it will not actually be deleted from disk from the perspective of that process.This also why removing a log file that's actively being written to doesn't clear up filesystem space, and why it's more effective to truncate it instead. ( e.g. Run
> /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log
instead ofrm /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log
)Sometimes you can even use this to recover an accidentally deleted file, if it's still held open in a process. You can go to
/proc/$PID/fd
, where$PID
is the process ID of the process holding the file open, and find all the file descriptors it has in use, and then copy the lost content from there.