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koevet on Aug 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Recovering deleted files using grep

Actually, I think that the real great hack here is to alias the rm command to a trashbin script (as suggested at the end of the article)

telemachos on Aug 19, 2010 | [–]

The danger of aliasing the command itself (the bare 'rm') is that you come to count on the safety of the alias. Then you work one day on a friend's or coworker's machine and...BOOM.

What I do instead is make a nearby (and simple) alias. For example:

    rmi='rm -i'

abhiomkar on Aug 19, 2010 | [–]

This can be achieved using trash-cli

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