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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Creating a nondestructive 'rm'
Message-ID: <8842@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Nov 88 01:32:24 GMT
References: <4460006@hpindda.HP.COM> <1226@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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?

I don't know why you don't want the command that removes links to inodes
to do anything other than remove links to inodes.  However, you might
consider using the Adventure shell I posted a few years ago.  It supports
resurrection of objects that had been destroyed (sent into limbo).