Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:31:10 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recycle bin for FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <20010516213109.D167439@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <200105170035.f4H0ZIY14408@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>; from "Mark Sergeant" on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:35:17PM References: <15106.60293.141053.55469@guru.mired.org> <200105170035.f4H0ZIY14408@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:35:17PM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: > I had another idea as far as this goes, akin to having a /trash dir or somesuch > invoking the command rm blah will mv blah to /trash/$pwd/blah as such anything > that gets rm'ed with the same name can be recovered. Then a crontab entry could > be created to clean out files in trash older than 7 days or some such. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > On Wed, 16 May 2001 16:05:09 -0500, Mike Meyer said: > > :: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types: > :: > Try the attached scripts. I hope that this is close to what you were > :: > looking for. Later.... > :: > :: Someone really should do these things *right* and put them in a port. > :: > :: To see what's wrong with Duke's script, consider the following sequence: > :: > :: $ rm My_Precious_File > :: <realize you weren't where you thought you were, so...> > :: $ cd old > :: $ rm My_Precious_File > :: > :: And you can no longer recover the current version of > :: My_Precious_File. If you do this on Windows, you wind up with two > :: copies of My_Precious_File, and it's not obvious which is which. > :: > :: <mike > -- > Mark Sergeant > Unix Systems Administrator Hell of a constructive suggestion, Mark. I was thinking of something along that very line. Thanks! -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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