How to efficiently restore Library folder partially deleted on OS X

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Published on 2012-06-18T15:14:32Z Indexed on 2012/06/18 15:18 UTC
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I am using OS X Lion, and trying to delete some files I did accidentally (from home directoy):

rm -fr Library

I realized about this some 15 seconds later and did

killall rm

Some folders have been deleted, of course, inside "Library". Now the system seems to be ok, but I fear what will happen in case of reboot.

I have a Time Machine backup from 5 days ago. I wonder if it would be a good solution, just to copy whole "Library" folder from my home directory from backup and replace this one.

Or, what do you think would be the best approach?

PS: In order to restore just deleted directories inside "Library", in which order does "rm" start to delete directories, alphabetically?

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