fixing rm *

[Steven Bickel]

# aliasing rm to this simple shell script should solve all rm problems
# providing you have some extra disk space and the rm_purge alias is executed
# regularly ie. in a .login file. It will currently purge all files from
# the removal directory after 21 days.

# remove script
num=0;
for i in $@
do
   if test -r $i 
   then
      chmod 777 $i;
      rm_dir="/usr/tmp/rmtmp/$i";
      echo "moved" $i $rm_dir ;
      mv $i $rm_dir;
      num=num+1;
   fi
done

alias rm_purge "find /usr/tmp/rmtmp/ -name '*' -print -atime +21 -exec rm -r '{}' \;"

          Steve Bickel                          bickel at nprdc.arpa
	  Systems Engineering Assoc.            (619) 553-9306
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