safe-rm – prevent the accidental deletion of important files

safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable list of exclusions for files and directories that should never be removed.

Users who attempt to delete one of these protected files or directories will not be able to do so and will be shown a warning message instead.

The system-wide exclusions live in `/etc/safe-rm.conf` (or `/usr/local/etc/safe-rm.conf`) and you should probably add paths like these:

/
/etc
/usr
/usr/lib
/var

This is free and open source software.

Website: launchpad.net/safe-rm
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Developer: Francois Marier
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

safe-rm is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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