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dm90
dm90

Reputation: 795

Recycle bin Script in Linux

In my production server, somebody executed rm -rf and my important files are removed permanently. So, I thought of having a recycle bin, so if a user do rmthe file will move to RecycleBin rather than deleting from server. And i've made the below script for it. But I'm getting some error while it executed.

alias rm='/root/remove.sh'

#rm test_file Now below script will trigger when you type the rm command

#!/bin/bash
dir=$(pwd)
mv $dir/$1 /root/Recyclebin

when the above script is triggered i'm getting the following error.

mv:cannot move '/root/test_file' to '/root/Recyclebin': Not a directory

Now, please suggest is there anyother way to make a recycle bin concept other than this or please help to resolve the error. Thanks in advance.

I'm using CentOS 5.6

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4617

Answers (1)

max
max

Reputation: 151

Try This At first create a folder named as MyTrash under /root ie: /root/MyTrash

Then open .bashrc file and write the below line at the bottom of the file.

alias rm='mv -t /root/MyTrash/'

Here -t means 

-t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY
       move all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY

update .bashrc file by running this command source .bashrc

Now if you delete any file using rm command that file will be moved to /root/MyTrash directory

Upvotes: 5

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