rm (was: Hurd questions)

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From: Gordon Matzigkeit
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00

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Hi!

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:

 Michael> I don't like all these rm changing suggestions.  What I
 Michael> think would be a great idea is the adoption of a command
 Michael> `trash' with identical arguments to rm, but doing a mac like
 Michael> trashcan system, where it just moves the files.  A trashd
 Michael> could run all the time, deleting files that are more than
 Michael> are wanted (a week or other user defined limit or bigger
 Michael> than etc.. can be used to control this).  This has several
 Michael> advantages

I had a similar idea, until somebody set me straight a couple of
months ago...

UNIX shells are *so* flexible, what you're asking for can be
accomplished by a few simple aliases and a .logout file.

Think about it, and you'll see that it's easy to implement...

--Gordon

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From: gord@enci.ucalgary.ca (Gordon Matzigkeit)
Subject: rm (was: Hurd questions)
Date: 1995/04/04
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