On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote: > Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from > the cygwin shell window/command line?
Yes. In your ~/.bashrc: RECYCLE_BIN_PATH="<location of your recycle bin>" function rm() { mv "$@" "$RECYCLE_BIN_PATH" } The one gotcha of the above is that "mv" will get the options passed to "rm" - not sure if there are any discrepancies. However, if you stick to "rm -r" and "rm -f", you should be fine. The procedure for finding the location of the recycle bin depends on your operating system and your setup. On my Win2k machine, I can simply use RECYCLE_BIN_PATH="/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/`ls -t /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER|head -1`" Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/