Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:32, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > > or you can put the following into your .bashrc > > alias rm='mv --target-directory=/root/Desktop/Trash $1 ' > > I dont have the origanal message anymore to check, but i thought the > thread was about a "user" deleting files, if that is correct then the > above will not work as a normal user cannot write to /root (s) > directory. He didn't write about user or root. And I took the example out of root's bashrc by random. I've got the same in the bashrc of each user. > > It is a good idea to do the same for root and users tho'. > On another note many distro's dont have a trash directory, so the need > to create one arises as well. But that's no problem. You can take $HOME/.trash or whatever. I also created a script running as cron job to keep the size of the directory (it's contents) below a defined size.
Ulrich By the way: You could also tell KDE to use any directory as a trash directory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
