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Re: trm - a command that removes files into a temporary "trash"
Oleg!
Thanks. Next time I'll query more thoroughly through the mans before I
sit and write.
Tal Davidson
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Tal Davidson writes:
> > Stas!
> >
> > The idea was to automate the process of removing files to trash, such
that
> > new files moved into a trash that has older files with the same name,
> > wouldn't replace the old files but rather be renamed with a suffix .0,
.1
> > etc. Otherwise, a simple move to trash is one step away from a real
> > removal.
> >
> > Cheers!!
> > Tal Davidson
> >
>
> So why is "mv -bfV numbered file_to_trash ~/.trash" not suitable?
> Read "man mv" carefully. Keep in mind, that you can empty your trash
> from cron in Linux, say, on a weekly basis, and also make it warn you
> before it does so. I do a similar thing (although I don't use trash,
> I just have aliased rm to "rm -i" - another good practice, maybe you
won't
> need your .trash at all if you do it), with find producing a list of
files
> to be deleted, and the result mailed to myself.
>
> Typically, you don't need to write C code for administrative tools like
> this (or much more complicated ones) in UNIX/Linux.
>
> Oleg Goldshmidt
> Berger Financial Research Ltd.
> goldshmt@netvision.net.il
>
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