I've made countless mistakes being overly cavalier with "rm". As others have mentioned, "rm -i" didn't work for me because I just got in the habit of always using "-f". About a year ago, I decided to start fiddling with a "trash can" script. I ended up with several shell scripts that alias rm to move all deleted files and directories to a temporary directory until logout. I can then "undelete" anything that I realize I still need later on.
If anyone has some time to waste and is interested in taking a look at what I came up with, I put the scripts and a brief explanation here: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452/trash.html I realize there are countless better ways to make a system such as this. I even hesitate to put my scripts out there because they are so embarrassingly amateur. Oh well. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
