A: First, try not to accidentally delete a file in linux...
From http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/34156.aspx:
"Many new users of Linux are surprised to learn that no "undelete" application is part of a distribution. If they research the problem a little, they'll find that specialized hard drive searches using Grep or the Linux write command can be used to "dump" part of the contents of the hard drive into a file or folder. This is an inconvenient and lengthy process best done soon after the deletion and run from a Live CD instead of from an active partition.
Technically, the EXT3 file system does not support an undelete method itself [...]."
Also see http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.02.shtml.
With that in mind, follow the howto on the following URL, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion-4.html.
Or just keep good and tested backups...
