From: Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T09:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

Scripsit ille David Garamond <davegaramond@icqmail.com>:
> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
[...]
> >>This could have been a tragedy if I didn't have a recent backup made on a
> >>sepparate directory.  Since I did, I actually lost very little work.
> > Also:
> >   CVS
> >   alias rm='rm -i'
> >   vim: set backupdir=/tmp      [I presume the *~ files come from vim?]
> 
> although there is no substitute for backups, it's amazing to see that 
> over the years the unix CLI hasn't got a good replacement for "rm" that 
> does trash-can-thingy (or some filesystem features added on to 
> ext2/ext3/reiserfs that makes undeletion possible). the best distros 
> come up with is putting the "rm -i" alias. i find "rm -i" very annoying.

/usr/local/bin/recycle:
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| mkdir -p "$HOME/.recycled"
| 
| for x in "$@"; do
|   if [ "`echo "$x" | cut -f 1 -d /`" != '' ]; then
|     x="`pwd`/$x";
|   fi
|   y="`echo "$x" | sed 's/-/-_/g;s/\//--/g'`"
|   mv "$x" "$HOME/.recycled/$y"
| done

..bashrc:
| alias rm=recycle


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Why slrn?
Gnus is much too easy...

to pronounce.