Linux in certain distros has a trash command that can help you out. If I were going to make an alias like that, I'd have a 48 hour time limit before actual erasure. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi All: After many years of impulsive mistakes on my part, as well as other > insodents, I would like to have a better way of recovering from these. As an > ideal solution, I would like to alias a "del" command so files are moved to a > scratch location for 6 hours, which would be more than enough time for me to > realize I was impulsive about wild-cards. I am in TCSH Debian SID. At least > years ago in DOS I could run an undelete command, it would ask for a first > letter to fillin. Also, years ago when I was on PrimeNet, we could cd in to a > "snapshot" directory where everything would still be around. My Linux expert > says at 1 point we tried a similar solution of butter fs but he says I didn't > like it as it was filling up my hard-drive. Seemingly just keeping deleted > files around for 6 hours would be a perfect solution. We are also planning on > upgrading hard-drives on a local backup server. Thanks so much in advance for > suggestions. > Chime > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list