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Hack:   Bringing Trash-Awareness to rm
Subject:   Unwise to replace rm
Date:   2003-05-13 14:53:49
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Unwise to replace rm

The Finder's "Empty Trash" is maddening when you are
trying to get rid of several thousand little files in a directory tree. "rm -fr" is so much nicer.


Funny, it's the other way around for me; I'd rather be able to move an entire directory into the trash in one stroke (rather than contending with an 'rm -rf' for disk access), then empty the trash when I step away from the system.


On my debian and IRIX systems I've gotten so lazy that I just move directories into /tmp and let them sit until the next reboot.


Unfortunately (sic), the kernels nowadays are stable enough that even with big hard drives, /tmp fills up before a crash/hang/forced reboot. This is the kind of problem I want to have, though :-)