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Originally Posted by RAGEAngel9
Dude, not to be too much of a smart ass, but
unix man rm
Read the opening paragraph.
If you don't currently need the force option (or the other exceptions), then it's the fault of your shell not rm explicitly. You can change your alias' if need be.
It's not a recycling bin, but that's not all that foolproof either. |
I am not sure what you are trying to point out. How does rm provide an intermediate phase between total deletion and being marked for deletion + moved to a separate place in the directory tree?
I personally use a script that moves thing to a faux recycling bin in my home directory and use clearcase to protect the rest. For some funny reason I have never had an accident with rm :-P Maybe it's because I actually have time to think about what I'm doing after I hit enter before unlinking the contents of a directory.
No system is foolproof, but rm is asking for (and giving) thousands of people trouble which should hint to the problem.