On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: >> What really annoys me is the fact that rm has no reasonable safeguard. >> [...] i'd like to see a safeguard against deleting too many files > > rm is not a file manager. I do larger renaming/removal workloads using > Emacs (hardly surprising), but there are also other file managers.
indeed, rm is not a file manager. However, rm has this: -I prompt once before removing more than three files, so it makes sense to me to have an option for prompting before removing more than n files, too. As for Emacs, i think it wouldn't make sense to write shell scripts depending on Emacs. >> I was thinking about having all my files in a git repository, but >> that's ~10 GB of data, and lots of it is in a binary (i mean, >> non-diffable) form. Do you think it would make sense to use git for >> that? > > It's pretty efficient for storing even binary blobs. i'll try then. > -i isn't an option of touch. It is an option of rm. The touch places a > file -i in the directory. At least with POSIX sort order, this is bound > to come rather early in a directory listing, so if you have files a, b, > c in the directory, > > rm * .o > > expands into > > rm -i a b c .o > > It does not help much if you have a sort order where - gets ignored, > obviously. ah, that's really nice! thanks for explanation. On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > On my GNU/Linux box, I'm using the libtrash library which intercepts > `rm' and friends to store data to be deleted in a trash directory. A > cron script then really deletes the collected data once a day. > > http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/libtrash/ > > I'm very satisfied with it. looks interesting. I'll give it a try - thanks for suggestion! Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
