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Article #62902Re: Hurd questions
From: Michael De La Rue
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:00
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I don't like all these rm changing suggestions. What I think would be a great idea is the adoption of a command `trash' with identical arguments to rm, but doing a mac like trashcan system, where it just moves the files. A trashd could run all the time, deleting files that are more than are wanted (a week or other user defined limit or bigger than etc.. can be used to control this). This has several advantages o rm still works properly for when you really need it. o The files can very easily be recovered o When people move to another syste or persons shell, they won't make mistakes because they have got used to a strange rm. They'll type `trash -rf /*' and get told `trash not found' and then think before using the same command with rm. o because trash works the same as rm, except is safe, people will easily transfer to using it. There's only one thing. People would have to get into the habit of teaching beginners to use trash instead of rm.
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