[Tfug] emulating a recycle bin

[Josh Miller]

He'd have deleted her files *for* her & saved her the trouble, while also
giving her a convenient villain to blame.  It's much more satisfying to
blame another person rather than yourself or a stupid program.  Chances are
he'd have a backup, which he'd make available after an appropriate bribe was
tendered.

See, he's really a humanitarian.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
> Matthew T. Eskes
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:27 AM
> To: 'Tucson Free Unix Group'
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] emulating a recycle bin
> 
> W00t BOfH++;
> 
> -- The Founding Fathers struggled for the principle that man could and
> should be trusted with his own destiny. Our current /domestic/ enemies,
> against whom those Americans in uniform are sworn to defend, do not
> believe
> in this principle, but we have again won a round in the endless fight
> against them.
> 
>    -- Jeff Cooper on the assault weapons ban ending
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert Hunter
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:04 AM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] emulating a recycle bin
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:03:03PM -0700, christopher 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?
> 
> GNOME has a trash bin, and there are probably others, as well.
> However, even these tools have their equivalent of "rm -rf", so
> sometimes there really is no fixing stupid, as Ron White says.
> 
> When using rm with -f, -r, or wild-cards, I try to always type the
> complete argument, then arrow back, and add the power options.  It's
> kind of like leaving the safety on until you are ready to shoot.
> 
> One of my "memorable" experiences concerns this coworker who was a
> victim of
> a bizarre fluke.  One fine day, she was working away in her terminal
> session, and was in the process of doing something like "rm *.o", but
> had gotten only as far as "rm *".  You see where this is going, don't
> you?  Anyhow, at that precise moment, a program that was running in
> the background decided to print a bunch of error messages to her
> terminal, and she could no longer make out what she had typed.  A
> simple Ctrl-C would have nuked her command, and let her start over,
> but instead she opted to press Enter.  *Apply palm to face now*
> Naturally, she panicked when she realized what had happened, and
> decided to pay a visit to my office, complaining that a stupid program
> "had deleted all her files".  After making out the sequence of events,
> I tried explain to her that the "stupid program" was in fact /bin/rm,
> and the she had had been extremely unlucky.  I also tried to console
> her with explanations and advice, such as:
> 
> -the differences of the standard streams
> -the wisdom of using "rm" with the interactive option
> -how makefiles would make her life much easier
> -that she might want to think about doing backups
> 
> But she was having none of it, utterly convinced that she had done
> nothing wrong, beyond the Point of No Return, down the Road of Denial,
> in the land of Luser.  It's moments like these when you realize that
> Simon Trivaglia is a genius.
> 
> 
> --Rob
> 
> 
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