> > Given that the code for sending to recycyle bin is already in place, may I > > request that a command line option be added to rm and rmdir to send all > > files to the bin? This would be extremely handy for use in scripts, to me > > at the very least. > > The code to move files into the bin is an underlying, hidden feature of > the unlink(2), rmdir(2) and rename(2) POSIX calls. The rm(1) tool has > no access to this functionality and there's no intention to add a > non-POSIX API to allow any tool to use it.
There is a library called libtrash that implements a trash can for GNU/Linux by intercepting the above calls: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/libtrash/ . No one has packaged it for Cygwin. It requires the use of LD_PRELOAD, which I believe is supposed to work in Cygwin, although I've never tried to use it. Hm... might be interesting to try... I'll look at it. A. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
