rms

"rm, safely." I also think it's funny that I've named my reimplementation of the M$ recycling bin after RMS.

$HOME/bin/rms

#!/bin/sh

## rms
##   "rm, safely." I also think it's funny
##   that I've named my reimplementation
##   of the MSFT recycling bin after RMS.
##
## (c) 2000-2003 Hal Canary
##
## License:
##   This is free software, see
##   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
##   This product is distributed
##   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.

TRASH="/tmp/$USER/trash";

if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 FILE...";
    echo "Move FILE(s) to $TRASH.";
    exit 1;
fi

[ -d "$TRASH" ] || mkdir -p "$TRASH";

for file in "$@"; do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
	mv -f "$file" "$TRASH"
	echo "$file -> $TRASH"
    else
	echo "$file doesn't exist!"
    fi
done
exit 0;