severity 33125 wishlist
retitle 33125 rm: add --backup option, similar to cp/mv/ln
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On 2018-10-28 3:12 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
It'd be nice to add a --backup flag to 'rm', which would behave like
--backup does with cp, mv, and ln. This would have the effect of the
'del' command you're sugg
It'd be nice to add a --backup flag to 'rm', which would behave like --backup
does with cp, mv, and ln. This would have the effect of the 'del' command you're
suggesting.
Hello,
in this message a do a plea to introduce a /bin/del command into the coreutils.
Deleting is something totally different than removing. It is a mv action and
there must be a restore action.
With the coreutils, removing is the default. This is not wrong, but it can be
very anyoing, as