rm non-permanent delete

[COKEDUDE]

I read this article as a way to do a non-permanent of something.

I saw 2 problems. The first that my rm is located at /bin/rm. I would assume I would change the location to /bin/rm. The second my rm is a executable file and not a text file. So will replacing my rm file with the shellscript below work? I would think they would need to be the same type of files.

As far as how to make stuff go to the trash instead of deleted, run this as root:

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mv /usr/bin/rm /usr/bin/rm.bak

Now copy this script and save it as /usr/bin/rm:

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#!/bin/bash

mkdir ~/.Trash &> /dev/null

while [ ! -z "$1" ]; do
    mv "$1" ~/.Trash/
    shift
done

This will, instead of deleting files, move them to the .Trash directory in your home directory, and you can delete them for real later.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/364949-post2.html

[randomizer]

You'll need to run this as well:

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chmod +x /bin/rm

This makes the script executable.

[piquat]

Could you also have created an alias like rmn (for non-perm) and made that execute your script, thereby saving the original rm in case you want to use it to?

[randomizer]

That's probably a better idea. You'd just have to make sure you don't type the wrong one by accident Then again, there's nothing stopping you from using /bin/rm.bak just as you would /bin/rm.

[COKEDUDE]

Could you also have created an alias like rmn (for non-perm) and made that execute your script, thereby saving the original rm in case you want to use it to?

Could you explain how to do that please? I am not familiar with using aliases.

[libssd]

Answers here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=40582

You can create aliases on the fly, but they won't survive a terminal session; to make them permanent, you need to add them to (I think it's the same in Mint as in Ubuntu) .bashrc, which just happens to be filled with lots of alias examples. The .bashrc file should be in your home directory.

[COKEDUDE]

This works good .

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alias rmdi="rm -ri"

[randomizer]

That does exactly the same as "rm -r" except that it will bug you about every single file it wants to delete.