[Tfug] emulating a recycle bin

[Christopher Robbins]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:03 PM, christopher <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:

> hey, I just had an accident with a file. Well, I guess
> when you typed in the command and confirmed the
> override, you can't call it an accident, but anyway
> it's deleted.
>
> Now it's not a file I can't replace because I had a
> backup, but it made me do some searching and it seems
> the only way to avoid really losing such a file is to
> 'emulate a recycle bin'. Do any of you do this?
>
>
What if you tweaked your shell environment so that
'rm' was actually 'rm -i' (which forces you to confirm
deletion before you actually delete) ?

I know that's out of the spec, but it might help...I don't
use an 'emulated recycle bin', but I do have a decent
amount of backups to cover my ass in case I do
screw up.  :)

   - Chris

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