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• Unwise to replace rm
  2003-05-13 14:53:49  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  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 :-)

• Unwise to replace rm
  2003-04-27 07:21:48  kerbaugh [View]
  
  
  I couldn't agree more! I wrote the script and I started calling it "rmm" more than a year ago. The site where the script is posted also suggests this now. However, I admit that I didn't change the site until this was posted as I thought interest in it had waned. This Hack certainly started another "lunar cycle"!
  
  You omitted another big reason for changing the name; you would be amazed at what ends up in the Trash after a major make install!
  
  Thanks for an excellent suggestion.