photorec:tldr:e2366

photorec: Run PhotoRec on a specific device.

photorec

$ sudo photorec ${-dev-sdb}

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The provided command line is used to execute the photorec command with elevated privileges using sudo. Here is an explanation of each part:

sudo: It stands for "superuser do" and is a command in Unix-based operating systems that allows a user with the appropriate permissions to run programs with the security privileges of a different user (usually the superuser or root user).
photorec: It is a powerful command-line data recovery tool used to recover lost files from storage media such as hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, etc. It is part of the TestDisk utility package.
${-dev-sdb}: This part is not a valid syntax. The use of $ and - is incorrect in this context. However, assuming you intended to provide the device identifier for a specific storage device, such as /dev/sdb, the correct syntax would be: sudo photorec /dev/sdb. In this example, photorec will be executed, and it will attempt to recover lost files from the storage device /dev/sdb.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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