[SOLVED but with a great loss] Re: [ltp] Partition table seems corrupted

[Matthias Posseldt]

On Monday 27 December 2004 13:27, jcms wrote:
> I am interested in recovering my wife's Doctorate thesis (about 10
> files) from a few hundred thousand files with only numbers on their
> names.

You can try to use "grep" on all files:

grep -H -i "word-in-thesis" *

where -H prints the matching filename and -i searches case-insensitive. 
That will work if your wife wrote the thesis in a format that is 
human-readable (LaTeX, unpacked XML).

Regards,
Matthias

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