From: Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T18:05:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

Scripsit ille Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de>:
> Scripsit ille aut illa Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>:
> > From: "Rudolf Polzer" <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de>
> [...]
> > > ..bashrc:
> > > | alias rm=recycle
> > 
> > Nice.  CAn we have that in Ruby, please? :)
> 
> My first attempt (it uses a configuration file in ~/.recycle which looks
> like the following:
> 
>   mountpoints = /etc/fstab
>   additional characters = �������
>   pathsep = :
>   trash of /tmp = /mnt/ramdisk/.recycled
> 
> where the mountpoints file must look like a fstab, additional characters
> are not escaped in pathnames and pathsep is used instead of / to escape
> path names (if using /, they are escaped to %2F)).
[...]
> begin
>   IO.foreach($config['mountpoints']) do |line|
>     line.chomp!()
>     line.sub!(/^#.*/, ' ')
>     line.sub!(/\s+/, ' ')
           ^^^^
This has to be a gsub!.

>     line.sub!(/^ | $/, '')
>     ents = line.split(/ /)
>     dir = ents[1] # fstab syntax
>     dev = File::stat(dir).dev()
>     $mountpoints[dev] = dir
>   end
> rescue
> end
[...]

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