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How can i override options of rm command ??
and how can i implement my own options
when we delete file using rm commad it will not delete file it has to move some folder....plz suggest some solution.

This seems like you want a recycle bin, is that right?

Perhaps an alias might do the trick, but it could get messy. Please clarify what you want to happen.



Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

vi /root/.bashrc
alias rm='rm -rfi'


source .bashrc

Yes Robin,
i want to develop recycle bin.
so that i need to override options of rm.
suppose if i press

>rm -rf somedirname

it dint delete dir ..
it has to move some folder(i.e recycle-bin).

To sandy.bhadoriya:

I thought that the -f flag forced delete without prompting and the -i prompted for every file. I think they are mutually exclusive.

Perhaps we would be better to wait and see what is actually wanted.



Robin

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To arun508.gatike

Um, okay, well it's an odd request. It depends on the logic you want. Perhaps you could put in an alias so that everything listed was moved to your 'Recycle bin' rather than deleted, but when that gets full, or it's just too big a move, what then?

Would you be cleaning up the 'Recycle Bin' periodically?


It will take some thinking about......



Robin

Not sure what OS or shell you're using, but if it's BASH, this may work for you. First create the recycle bin directory in your home directory:

Code:

mkdir ~/.recyclebin

Then add the following code to your .bashrc:

Code:

function delete {
    # in case more than one argument is given
    # loop through them
    for i in $@
    do
        # copy file or folder to recyclebin
        cp -rf $i ~/.recyclebin
    
        # remove it with the rm command
        rm -rf $i

        # display results
        echo "$i removed"
    done
}

To run:

Code:

delete testfile.txt testdir
testfile.txt removed
testdir removed

ls ~/.recyclebin/
testdir  testfile.txt

Hope this helps point you in the right direction.

yes Robin...
i will delete periodically...
it has to implement using alias.
but i want to override all the all the options of rm.

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when i do any thing with rm it has to move files to recyclebin folder