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Is possible to recover the deleted file if you have inode number of file.

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If the file is held open by another process then you can recover the file by using the inode number.

find /path/to/check -inum 1023564 -exec cp {} recoveredfile \;

If the file not held open by another process then your out of luck with using the inode.

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