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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm *
Summary: mv aliased
Message-ID: <1069@arctic.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 18 Nov 88 22:29:10 GMT
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Reply-To: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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# aliasing rm to this simple shell script should solve all rm problems
# providing you have some extra disk space and the rm_purge alias is executed
# regularly ie. in a .login file. It will currently purge all files from
# the removal directory after 21 days.

# remove script
num=0;
for i in $@
do
   if test -r $i 
   then
      chmod 777 $i;
      rm_dir="/usr/tmp/rmtmp/$i";
      echo "moved" $i $rm_dir ;
      mv $i $rm_dir;
      num=num+1;
   fi
done

alias rm_purge "find /usr/tmp/rmtmp/ -name '*' -print -atime +21 -exec rm -r '{}' \;"

          Steve Bickel                          bickel@nprdc.arpa
	  Systems Engineering Assoc.            (619) 553-9306
	  Naval Personel R & D Center.