Custom safe rm configuration

mzh · 01-28-2013, 03:56 AM

Hi
I have two questions about how to modify 'rm' to prevent unexpected removal of files.

1) How can I define that 'rm' is not executed, if a ' * ' wild card is passed (note the white-space before and after the asteriks).

2) How can I prevent 'rm' calls being added to the Bash history?

I heard about '-i' option and safe-rm so no need to point these out, but I wonder about how to do the above two things.

Thanks for any hints on this.

jschiwal · 01-28-2013, 04:01 AM

You might want to look at libtrash. It moves files to trash instead of deleting. This includes all system level deletions.