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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Please (Delete script) Post 302373576 by troym72 on Friday 20th of November 2009 09:43:25 PM
Old 11-20-2009
What options you have depend greatly on what version of UNIX you have and which shell you are using.

In order to move deleted files to a faux recycle bin, you're going to need to store more than just the files there. You'll need to have some kind of config file or a .ini file for each deleted file that tells UNIX where it came from and when it was deleted. You also will have to find a naming convention so that files deleted that have the same name, but came from different directories don't overwrite each other.

Another option would be to keep the original directory structure where the file came form within your recycle-bin directory. However, this could get difficult to maintain and will require you to parse the directory structure where the file was originally so that you can create the identical structure in your recycle-bin.

Its possible there is some free-ware utility that does this for you, but I have not heard of one.

Hopefully, this gives you some ideas about how you might accomplish what you are asking.
 

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