🔨 Obviously, while taking care of our system we inadvertently deleted (👀 at you,rm) and lost a very important file forever.
I do know the existence of the -i flag, however it does not protect against the dreaded 🚩 -rf.
So as another measure of security, I added an extra-layer security with rm.sh. In the grand scheme, it temporarily moves the file to be deleted to a directory TRASH_DIR(can be set as env variable ♻️) and the same file can, later on, be permanantly deleted or recovered.
After a few tweaks 🔧, I came up with rm.sh and I firmly believe that it's a solid wrapper for rm.
rm.sh 0.1.0 by @matdexir
DESCRIPTION:
This program is a rm replacement for sloppy just like me. It is essentially a wrapper for rm and mv commands.
OPTIONS:
-h|--help: Displays the current help message
-e|--empty: Empties the trash directory defined by $TRASH_DIR
-c|--clear: Clears the files that are older than 30 days inside $TRASH_DIR
Recommendation: For convenience's sake, you could put this into your crontab.
# crontab format
# * * * * * command_to_execute
# - - - - -
# | | | | |
# | | | | +- day of week (0 - 7) (where sunday is 0 and 7)
# | | | +--- month (1 - 12)
# | | +----- day (1 - 31)
# | +------- hour (0 - 23)
# +--------- minute (0 - 59)
0 0 * * * /path/to/rm.sh -c
- Implement the list feature