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From: burdick@hpindda.HP.COM (Matt Burdick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Creating a nondestructive 'rm'
Message-ID: <4460006@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 18:13:07 GMT
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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Does anyone have a nice alias or shell script so that when I 'rm' a file it
will actually move it to, for instance, a tmp subdirectory in my home
directory?

Right now, I have an alias that does this, but the problem is that may
alias doesn't handle all of rm's flags.  For instance, it complains if I
type in 'rm -rf *', since 'mv' doesn't have the -r flag and also can't move
across file partitions.

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Matt Burdick                    | Hewlett-Packard
burdick%hpda@hplabs.hp.com      | Technical Communications Lab