| Hack: | Bringing Trash-Awareness to rm | |
| Subject: | Unwise to replace rm | |
| Date: | 2003-04-22 09:29:28 | |
| From: | ygor | |
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I applaud your command-line "move-to-the-trash" utility, but as a long-time Unix geek, I would advise caution at changing a basic Unix command.
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Unwise to replace rm
2003-04-27 07:21:48 kerbaugh [Reply | 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.
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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 :-)