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>Can I alias rm to trash-put? You can but you shouldn't. In the early days I thought it was a good idea to do that but now I changed my mind. Although the inter
by Zamicol 4y ago
>Can I alias rm to trash-put?
You can but you shouldn't. In the early days I thought it was a good idea to do that but now I changed my mind.
Although the interface of trash-put seems to be compatible with rm, it has different semantics which will cause you problems. For example, while rm requires -R for deleting directories trash-put does not.
- mekster 4y agoI have aliased "rm" with "trash-put" for years and I just can't believe anyone is living without a trash capability under CLI. What kind of ancient environment is it without a trash capability? That's pre Windows 95. How are people handling the mistake of "rm *" in a wrong folder? Added benefit of trash-put is, you don't need "-r" to delete a folder. It's just an annoyance from user's perspective. If you think there's a compatibility problem in a script, just use /bin/rm and stop wasting time pulling hairs on unrecoverable deletion. "@daily trash-empty 30" Put this in cron to purge trashes older than 30 days daily.