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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fake deletion of files Post 302288054 by jim mcnamara on Monday 16th of February 2009 10:35:35 AM
Old 02-16-2009
One way: create an alias for rm that points to your script. The script calls rm for any file that is not in the 'special' directory - for files in the special directory it calls mv.

A real problem with this approach is checking symbolic links.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 02-16-2009 at 11:42 AM..
 

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