Command Line Trash - Programming On Unix
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Hello nixers,
No this isn't a post trashing shell scripting. Handling files on the command line is most of the time a non-reversable process, a dangerous one in some cases (Unix Horror Stories). There are tricks to avoid the unnecessary loss and help in recovering files if need be. Quote:Users do not expect that anything they delete is permanently gone. Instead, they are used to a “Trash can” metaphor. A deleted document ends up in a “Trash can”, and stays there at least for some time — until the can is manually or automatically cleaned. In this thread we'll list what ideas we have on this topic, novel or not so novel. There's the usual aliasing of rm to mv into a specific directory, a trash can for the command line. This can be combined with a cron job or timer that cleans files in this directory that are older than a certain time. You can check the actual XDG trash documentation that goes into great details about what needs to be taken into consideration: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/t...c-1.0.html In $HOME/.local/share/Trash ($XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash) and usually at least split into two directories:
Another way to avoid loosing files is to keep backups of the file system. This can be done via a logical volume management be it included in the file system itself (ZFS, btrfs, etc..) or not. So nixers, what's your command line trash, how do you deal with avoidable losses. |
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Command Line Trash - by venam - 07-03-2019, 04:02 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by jkl - 07-03-2019, 06:05 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by z3bra - 08-03-2019, 04:35 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by venam - 08-03-2019, 05:38 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by z3bra - 09-03-2019, 10:04 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by jkl - 09-03-2019, 10:27 AM
RE: Command Line Trash - by seninha - 14-04-2020, 06:33 PM
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