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From: art@wciu.EDU (Art Nicolaysen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities vs. "the way things are"
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.211748.13575@wciu.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:17:48 GMT
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In article <5163@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> ac999321@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (ac999321) writes:
>>>Retrieving a clobbered file is not, by definition, a job for a
>>>sysadmin.  There's nothing privileged about it.  And people want to do
>>I agree with this completely.  There should be the ability for a user
>>to recover deleted files.  My point is that it should be a function of
>>the kernel, and not an external kludge. 
>
>IHMO, it seems there already is an easy way to accomplish this; write a
>shell script that banishes "deleted" files to a "wastbasket" directory and
>make the user purge the wastebasket when his storage space is used up.  

As long as the user isn't real close to his/her quota limit, the purge
function can be accomplished every time the user logs out.  I use an
aliased rn (alias rn  mv \!* ~/trash_dir) and two lines in a .logout
file.  

This is not a totally robust method, however; does anybody want to post 
or email me their shell script?


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Art Nicolaysen          William Carey Int'l University (Global Mapping)
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