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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: alias rm to write to trash directory
Message-ID: <13698@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 15:23:40 GMT
References: <Feb.7.21.50.05.1990.10842@paul.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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In article <Feb.7.21.50.05.1990.10842@paul.rutgers.edu> broadman@paul.rutgers.edu (Allen Broadman) writes:
>
>I would like to have my RM command actually write
>files to a directory TRASH, which I could periodically empty.
>
>1) Is there an easy way to this?

  Sure -- Just takes a Little Shell Script.

>2) Is there a way to be reminded to empty the TRASH directory upon
>   logging out? Is there an analagous file to .login (.logout perhaps)?  

  Yep -- You guessed it!


Here you are ---

Script that puts trash in ~/Trash  (or whatever you set it to)

!# /bin/csh -f

set trash = "~/Trash"

while ($#argv)
     mv -i $argv[1] $trash # Moves it to the Trash Directory
     shift                 # Next file
end


Also, put this in your .logout

/bin/rm ~Trash/*
echo "Trash Emptied"


And thats it!


			An Up and Coming Unix Personality
			Kartik Subbarao