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Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Ralf Hauser <hauser at acm dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:05:35 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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