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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting creating a menu for recycling and permanently deleting files. Post 90700 by strmy_ngts on Friday 25th of November 2005 06:55:23 PM
Old 11-25-2005
Question creating a menu for recycling and permanently deleting files.

Trying to alias rm to move files to a hidden trash directory in the bash shell. I've tried to create this alias numberous ways and it's just not working. Here's what I've tried, anyone have any suggestions.
alias rm='mv $* ~/.trash'
alias rm= 'mv$* ~/.trash'

things like that... I've also tried creating a function called my_rm_script that contains just the "'mv ..." part of the above.

None of it works! I've about lost patience with it. Smilie

The concept is to create an undelete function:
an alias for rm to place "deleted" files in a trash folder
give an option to recover files from the trash folder
and
a destroy function that basically unaliases rm briefly so that the files that are chosen to be deleted are permanently deleted from the ~/.trash folder.

Help Please?!?!?! Smilie
 

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trash-list(1)						      General Commands Manual						     trash-list(1)

NAME
trash-list - List trashed files. SYNOPSIS
trash-list [OPTIONS]... [PATH]... DESCRIPTION
List all the contents of the trashcan. EXAMPLES
List all trashed files or grep output: $ trash-list 2008-06-23 21:57:26 /home/andrea/src/bluetrash/pippo 2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:53:13 /media/disk/adsfljasldj $ trash-list | grep foo 2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar BUGS
Report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/issues AUTHORS
Trash was written by Andrea Francia <andreafrancia@users.sourceforge.net> and Einar Orn Olason <eoo@hi.is>. This manual page was written by Steve Stalcup <vorian@ubuntu.com>. Changes made by Massimo Cavalleri <submax@tiscalinet.it>. SEE ALSO
trash-put(1), trash-restore(1), trash-empty(1), and the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification at http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. trash-list(1)
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