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Recover overwritten contents of text file

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I deleted my file content in the file how can i recover back using timestamps is it possible
for ex: I am having the file1.txt

cat file1.txt 

i am linux user 

i am new to linux 

i love linux

After sometime i later i delete the file content

cat file1.txt 

empty:

how to get back the content again in the file

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answered 2 Years ago truwom · Accepted Answer

Depends how you edited / deleted and how many times the content. Some editors like gedit creates a backup copy of file before saving with the '~' (tilde) suffix. These files with the '~' suffix are hidden files for most of file managers (like Nautilus). So, with a little bit of luck you can recovery your lost content from these files.