X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48258BCC.9090905@sdkennedy.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 12:49:32 +0100 From: Stephen Kennedy Reply-To: steve AT sdkennedy DOT com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Feature request: rm to recycle bin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I've searched the mailing list so believe this isn't a FAQ; apologies if it is. There have been several threads on the mailing list about replicating Windows' recycle bin functionality using aliases or shell functions, none of which are really satisfactory. However, in this thread http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00327.html it was discussed that 'rm' has been patched to send deleted files to the recycle bin in certain limited circumstances. 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. While I'm here please let me thank you very much for providing such an *awesome* set of tools. Steve -- 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/