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A much safer replacement of bash rm with ALMOST FULL features of the origin rm command.
Initially developed on Mac OS X, then tested on Linux.
Using safe-rm, the files or directories you choose to remove will move to $HOME/.Trash instead of simply deleting them. You could put them back whenever you want manually.
If a file or directory with the same name already exists in the Trash, the name of newly-deleted items will be ended with the current date and time.
Supported options
For those implemented options, safe-rm will act exactly the same as the original rm command
-i, --interactive
-f, --force
-r, -R, --recursive, --Recursive
-v, --verbose
--
Combined short options are also supported, such as
-rf, -riv, etc
Usual Installation
Add an alias to your ~/.bashrc script,
alias rm='/path/to/bin/rm.sh'
and /path/to is where you git clone shell-safe-rm in your local machine.
Permanent Installation
If you have NPM (node) installed (RECOMMENDED):
npm i -g safe-rm
Or normally with make:
make && sudo make install
# and enjoy
For those who have no make command:
sudo sh install.sh
Installing safe-rm will put safe-rm in your /bin directory. In order to use
safe-rm, you need to add an alias to your ~/.bashrc script and in all yours
currently open terminals, like this:
alias rm='safe-rm'
After installation and alias definition, when you execute rm command in the Terminal, lines of below will be printed:
> rm
safe-rm
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
which helps to tell safe-rm from the original rm.
Uninstall
First remove the alias line from your ~/.bashrc file, then
npm uninstall -g safe-rm
Or
make && sudo make uninstall
Or
sudo sh uninstall.sh