safer use of the shell / terminal

Posted by rolf on Thursday, 12 February 2015

I included following lines into my ~/.bashrc to have a more secure shell experience.

1) Do not remove (unlink) a file, but move it to the trash-can. You have to install trash-cli,
 

sudo apt-get install trash-cli
alias rm="echo 'NOTE: !! not removing, but moving to trash-can!! '; trash-put"

If you want to use the normal rm command, use

/bin/rm file1ToRemove.txt file2ToRemove.png

2) ask before overwriting a file, if you accidentaly copy or move a file with the same name.

alias cp="cp -i"  # ask before overwriting a file
alias mv="mv -i"  # ask before overwriting a file

 

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