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This is v clever but I still wouldn't recommend this. It's clever because its in the bash profile for the user and so only the user can execute this version of the function by typing it in, scripts that rely on rm will still call the original. But I wouldn't recommend doing this because the user will get used to rm acting in this way when it doesn't on other machines. I'm going to use this but rename the function "trash"

Matt Parkins
– Matt Parkins

2014-02-21 10:06:32 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2014 at 10:06
I am using the same function with two changes: ① I corrected a bug in the function that causes any folder to be renamed to the timestamp, if it has been tab-completed to include a trailing slash: This requires the following changes: Replacing the line local dst=${path##*/} with local dst=${mindtrailingslash##*/} and inserting another line just before that one that says local mindtrailingslash=${path%/}. ② I use the name function rr. Like this, it does not interefere with plain rm, but the name is similarly short and fast to type (any other name would do).

mach
– mach

2015-04-07 14:56:17 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 14:56
Change the name of rm() to rmt() - This way you can still use the rm command when you want. I think of rmt in my head as remove to trash :D

James111
– James111

2016-01-29 06:09:36 +00:00
Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 6:09

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