Wilfred wrote: > It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org > compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a > 'safer' option for newbies.
This is easily done. Simply create an alias that moves the file instead of removing it. alias rm="mv --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash/" But please don't make this a system default since this behavior is not appreciated by many. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils