[Gllug] 'safe' deletion of files

[Ashley Evans]

David Damerell wrote:

>On Wednesday, 11 Aug 2004, Ashley Evans wrote:
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>>>David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:-
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>>>>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.
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>[t.clarke's "rms" as a kinder gentler "rm"]
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>>Why not add secure deleting to regular 'rm', have rm and rms* to do 
>>pretend delete and real delete respectively.
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>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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My mistake I meant:

Why not add secure deleting to regular 'rm', have rms* and rm to do 
pretend delete and real delete respectively.

The 's' stands for safe not secure, as per (presumably) t.clark's post

/me goes a litle red

Ashley
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