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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Creating a nondestructive 'rm'
Message-ID: <1625@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Nov 88 00:45:35 GMT
References: <4460006@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <4460006@hpindda.HP.COM> burdick@hpindda.HP.COM (Matt Burdick) writes:
\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.

How about the following csh hacks?
You needn't use the `-rf' flags anymore, just type `rm directory'!

alias	rm	'set r=(\!* /); _rm'
alias	_rm	'if ($#r > 1) eval /bin/mv $r[1] ~/tmp \|\|'\
		'/bin/cp -r $r[1] ~/tmp \&\& /bin/rm -r $r[1]\; shift r\; _rm'
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