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Re: Hurd questions

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From: Michael De La Rue
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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From: mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Michael De La Rue)
Subject: Re: Hurd questions
Date: 1995/04/03
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