Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Versions non-solution Message-ID: <871@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 23:53:49 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.871 Posted: Mon Oct 8 23:53:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:22:29 EDT References: <462@wdl1.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 33 > Good grief! I thought that everyone had aliased "rm" to "mv". Huh?! Are we trying to solve the problem by ignoring it? > Try putting these lines in your .cshrc: > > # safe rm. moves things to /tmp, where the system can garbage collect > alias rm 'mv \!* /tmp/wunder' > > You are free to use your own login name instead of mine for your... This doesn't work well in the face of system crashes if your system works as ours does, in two respects: We don't have a lot of space in /tmp. Making everyone else's compilations (etc., etc.) bomb out so that you can have your own personal file wastebasket overflowing is not kindly regarded around here. We clean out /tmp on rebooting (as happens after a crash), so if the files you want to hang on to happen to be needed because of a crash while you were doing something, they'll all get blown away at the worst time. And, of course, there's the oops-I'm-in-the-wrong-directory routine--you go to clean up /tmp/myself only you space out the cd or some such and end up cleaning out your work directory. For most of the clever backup schemes, there's a standard screwup that will zorch them. In the end, there's no substitute for plain old common stupidity...er, I mean... -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.