🚀 go-pugleaf

On 21 Feb 2000 21:48:47 GMT, SammyTheSnake <phuae@primrose.csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>Nix fell asleep on the keyboard and...
>>"Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:
>>
>>>                                             nor is not just getting on with
>>> it and typing the bloomin' thing...
>>
>>In the Windows world, you are conditioned not to do that, because all
>>too many actions are one-way you-are-dead-now-and-there-is-no-return.
>
>recycle bin
>undelete
>linux equivalent? nope.


Hmmmm.

That's odd, I have a trash (very American I know) receptacle on my desktop and 
when I type 'del filename(s)', filename(s) get tarred and compressed into the
trash folder.

undelete is insecure on a multi user system (who performs the undelete?)and
what're the chances of a file still being intact in order to perform an
undelete on a multi user system anyway?

There are file systems for Linux which can perform version control 
automatically.

Here's the shell code for 'del'.
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#!/bin/sh

TAR='tar -c -f -'
COMPRESS='gzip -9 -c -'
RM='rm -rf'

TRASH="${HOME}/.trash"
DATE=`date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
OUTPUTFILE="${DATE}-deletions.tar.gz"

( ${TAR} "$@" | ${COMPRESS} > ${TRASH}/${OUTPUTFILE} ) && ${RM} "$@"
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>
>SammyTheSnake(the only thing I don't like about linux)

Well, were talking 8 lines of shell script to add that functionality and
it could be just 1 line without all the variables.

Cmon you all. This is the true power of Linux. This is what makes the
difference between Windows/Macs and Unix/Linux. With Linux the attitude
is 'Can do.', with the others it's 'Well Apple/Microsoft have promised
in version 500013.8...'

Cmon, get with the programme people. Delete stuff.

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