rm-trash – replacement for rm

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin). The script is meant to be used in place of the rm system command.

This solves the issue of accidental removals. This utility is meant to be used as an alias with rm directly and unlike other such scripts, it can handle duplicate files in the trash and works for recursive arguments and any other options that rm supports. This is a wrapper around rm and thus supports all options of rm.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Meant to be used in place of rm.
• Handles all arguments that rm can take.
• If the deletion was unsuccessful because of wrong arguments, then it deletes the trashed files to save space.
• Handles the file name collisions with the files already in trash.
• Handles some permission issues automatically.
• If rm is called from any other script or indirectly then the system ‘rm’ command is used automatically.
• Shows the appropriate error messages exactly like those which arise in rm.

Website: github.com/nateshmbhat/rm-trash
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Developer: Natesh M Bhat
License: MIT License

rm-trash is written in Bash. Learn Bash with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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