Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
- Subject: Re: rm -rf and the trashcan
- From: Jamison Hope <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:14:23 -0400
On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Esteban Bodigami wrote:
...things change. empires fall, companies go bankrupt. people die,
people are reborn... and you are saying that the rm command cann't
change?
Yes, that is what we're saying. rm cannot change. As long as Apple
wants to conform to the POSIX specification, rm must behave as
described there:
http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/
If you want to create a new operating system in which rm moves files
to a trash directory, time is counted in minutes since 1970, all
function names are in Spanish, and nobody's shell scripts work because
nothing in /bin behaves as expected, go for it. It just won't be Unix
anymore.
2552/7/20 Clark Cox <email@hidden>
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Esteban
Bodigami<email@hidden> wrote:
> there must be an equivalent command to "clean the trash can"; or
it must be
> cleaned after log-off.
>
> the RM command must be a short-hand for something more like: MV (to)
> ~/.TrashCan
No, it mustn't. The rm command knows nothing of the trash on the Mac.
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