How can I tell whether an interrupted rm -r removed any files?

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Published on 2012-12-20T04:05:05Z Indexed on 2012/12/20 5:05 UTC
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I installed sshfs a Linux box and then mounted my Mac home directory. In the middle of troubleshooting a configuration issue, I did an ls -l on the mount directory (as normal user), receiving:

total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? sl

I then ran sudo rm -r on that directory but pressed Ctrl+C to terminate it immediately before it (looks) like the command did anything. I notice no files missing but I want to be sure - is there a way I can somehow inspect the filesystem log on my Mac to see if any files were actually removed?

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