🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <gordznfqz9mpghp7_-_@enci.ucalgary.ca>,
Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>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...

But this is dangerous, because you'd only want to remove the trash
when you exited a login shell, right?  You don't want it cleaning house
every time you exit a window.

-Clint