swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) (01/29/91)
In article <jtb.3248@iotm.ttank.com> jtb@iotm.ttank.com (John P. Gibbons) writes: > > About 3 or 4 months ago I came up the idea (after accidentally deleting >a bunch of really important programs) of aliasing delete to move. Doing >this would, instead of deleting files, it would MOVE them to the trashcan >directory. ... Alias delete to rename. This will accomplish what you are desiring. Of course rename will not cross a volume boundary (from df1: to df0: for example). Which is the behavior you would want anyway (ie you want the data on df1: to move into the trashcan on df1:). This will mean a little more complicated adaptation than a straight alias; possibly a short script to extract the volume name out of the path to the file that is being "deleted". -- _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com
estdwha@warwick.ac.uk (CrisP) (01/30/91)
In article <jtb.3248@iotm.ttank.com> jtb@iotm.ttank.com (John P. Gibbons) writes: > > About 3 or 4 months ago I came up the idea (after accidentally deleting >a bunch of really important programs) of aliasing delete to move. Doing >this would, instead of deleting files, it would MOVE them to the trashcan >directory. Then later I could delete the contents of the trashcan, or >I could recover any files I wanted from there as well. This would avoid any >accidental deletions of important files.. Well this worked fine, except for >the fact that I can't MOVE recursively with the ARP 1.3 move command. Almost >ALL of the arp commands have an OPT ALL ability, with the exception of move. > > A good example of this follows; > >Let's say for example I wanted to delete the fonts directory (entirely), >well with delete, I would type "delete fonts: ALL". With move that doesn't >work, it will only move files in the current directory. This was not >satisfactory. > [ Other stuff deleted ] "OPT ALL" is a bit dogy with ARP 1.3. I have a promlem with APR 1.3 "COPY" and "OPT ALL". When I try "COPY dir1 dir2 ALL" it doesn't work. It complains that dir1 if a directory not a file. There seem to be a lot of things that have been overlooked with ARP. Anotherone being the way the ARP commands refuse to work using CON: and RAW: devices. ~CrisP. -- ------------------------------------------------- crisp@uk.ac.warwick.cs | estdwha@uk.ac.warwick.cu -------------------------------------------------