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photorec:tldr:e2366
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.