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From: apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Pinhead@Spikes.slo.ca.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to recover (and remove) UNIX files
Summary: 1 liner's using 'alias'
Keywords: Another way...
Message-ID: <13768@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 24 Aug 89 22:08:16 GMT
References: <3639@uokmax.UUCP>
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jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf) writes:

~The following shell scripts are:
~	rm -- remove files to compressed storage in /usr/tmp/.$USER
~	unrm -- bring those files back
~	rml -- list files "removed"
~	rmclean -- clean up /usr/tmp/.$USER

	[Scripts deleted.]

Instead of using shell scripts, here is a way of accomplishing the same thing
using 'alias':

rm:  To move a file into a predefined directory.
     alias rm    '\mv \!* ~/.trash'

del:  To REALLY delete a file (use sparingly!)
     alias del   '\rm'

grab:  To place a copy of the deleted file into the current directory.
     alias grab  'cp ~/.trash/\!* .'

show:  List files in 'delete directory'.
     alias show  'ls -sAF ~/.trash' 

empty:  To clean out files in 'delete directory'
     alias empty '\rm -r ~/.trash/* >& /dev/null; \rm ~/.trash/.* >& /dev/null'

It does not compress the files, and a directory must be present (I have mine
called '~/.trash')

~jeffm@uokmax.UUCP	Jeff Medcalf	jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

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-- 
Andy Pippin                    "Do you think God gets stoned?  Look at the
apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU       platypus... I think so." - R. Williams