Non Destructive rm - a Solution
MUHAMMAD A. MUQUIT
muquit at garfield.ncat.edu
Tue May 14 06:09:28 AEST 1991
The following shell script developed by Dr. E. Nzewi (Department of Civil
Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University) is a good solution of
accidental file and directory deletion. If you put the script in your
.login file, it should work just fine. With Dr. Nzewi's permission, I am
putting the script below.
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# Temporary dumping ground for removed files .. creation
# and use .... ZAP == /tmp/$user
#
# first part checks whether ZAP
# exists ... if it does great, if not, create the directory
# ZAP directory is /tmp/yourlogin e.g. /tmp/m40
#
/bin/test -d /tmp/$user
set statuszap = $status
if ($statuszap == '1') then
rm -f /tmp/$user
mkdir /tmp/$user
endif
#
# aliases to enable ZAP = /tmp/$user usage ..
#
# rm -- moves files to temporary grave .. retrieve with "getzap"
# rmdir -- to remove a directory .. move a whole directory to ZAP
# del -- removes a file immediately from the disk ... does NOT
# store in /tmp/$user temporarily.
# getzapd -- get a directory from ZAP .. if it is still there
# getzapf -- get a file from ZAP .. if it is still there
# dumpzap -- delete ALL files in ZAP .. directory ZAP remains
# lszap -- list files in ZAP
#
alias rm 'mv \!* /tmp/$user'
alias rmdir 'cp -r \!* /tmp/$user; /bin/rm -r \!*'
alias del 'echo DELETE COMPLETELY: Are you SURE\? ; /bin/rm -i \!*'
alias getzapd 'cp -r /tmp/$user/\!* $cwd; /bin/rm -r /tmp/$user/\!*'
alias getzapf 'mv /tmp/$user/\!* $cwd'
alias dumpzap 'echo -n "Deletion of ZAP directory: sure? [y=yes, n=no:] " ; set ansdump = $<; if( $ansdump == 'y') /bin/rm -r /tmp/$user; if( $ansdump == 'y') mkdir /tmp/$user'
alias lszap 'ls /tmp/$user '
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Muhammad A. Muquit
Graduate Student
Department of Civil Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NC 27411
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e-mail address:
nzewi at garfield.ncat.edu or
muquit at garfield.ncat.edu
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