[Gllug] 'safe' deletion of files

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 11 Aug 2004, Ashley Evans wrote:
>>David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:-
>>>The real answer to this one is that by all means one should have a
>>>non-permanent deletion command, but it absolutely should not be called
>>>"rm". Then when users get used to it, it will just not work on other
>>>systems.
[t.clarke's "rms" as a kinder gentler "rm"]
>Why not add secure deleting to regular 'rm', have rm and rms* to do 
>pretend delete and real delete respectively.

That's an amazingly bad plan because users get used to "rm" being
pretend delete and then use it recklessly on other systems where it is
not so configured. The problem being talked about at the start of the
thread!

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