I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but
you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What
about a simple script something like this? This is off the top of my
head and not tested (so certainly has a bug or two), but it seems that
you could check with something like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "check?"
read ANS
if [ $ANS = "y" ]
then
ls -laR $1 | more
echo "continue?"
read ANS2
if [ $ANS2 = "y" ]
then
rm -fr $1
fi
else
rm -fr $1
fi
Of course there are two problems with big deletions. If you use more, it would get boring hitting the space bar a zillion times, and if you don't, then you won't see the files...
billo
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Celik wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 22:23:29 +1100,
Celik <celik.n.00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current
working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error?
I've done worse. I once did rm -rf .* to try to remove some config files in a home directory. I forgot that .*
matched .. and deleted a lot of stuff I didn't want to.
Bruno, after such an experience, did you come up with an alternative solution to using "rm -rf"?
"rm -i" is good as it prompts before deletion however it becomes tedious if there are a lot of files to be deleted,
hence "rm -rf" seems ideal but dangerous if not cautious :(
Had a look on google, there was one particular recommendation that caught me attention (sorry I don't have the link). It
was recommended to mv the files (and/or folders) to be deleted into a tmp directory. I'm planning to try that in my
future code, we'll see how things go.
Regards,
C
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