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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: removing and unremoving files
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Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 15:40:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 15:40:42 1987
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I have fixed everybody's rm command so it is really an alias
to something which prepends ".," to the filename.  Then a
skulker runs in the wee hours of the morning and removes
such files according to an aging algorithm of my choice.
(It happens to be, zap all files which have not been
accessed for more than one *working* day.)

You could just use find instead of writing a skulker but I
also clean out things like "core" and "*.tmp".

There have been times (not many, but more than one) when
someone has come to me and said, "Yesterday I removed ___
and I need it back."  It was sure convenient to just
un-remove it instead of spinning tapes.
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