Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:12:48 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recycle bin for FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <20010516191247.C167439@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <15106.60293.141053.55469@guru.mired.org>; from "Mike Meyer" on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:05:09PM References: <132922586@toto.iv> <15106.60293.141053.55469@guru.mired.org>
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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: These are NOT Duke's script, as Mike suggests! They are taken from pg 186-187 of "Voodoo Unix" by Charles Russel and Sharon Crawford. The authors encouraged their use with no conditions. I made no claims that they were mine. As well, they have worked for me. As to whether or not they can be improved on, Mike is in a better position than me to speak on this point. > $ 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. I wonder if Mike would be so kind as to suggest a remedy for the issue that he's brought forward. Would appending a unique suffix to the filename in the 'mv' to the ~/tmp process help? -- -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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