From kde-devel Sat Jan 30 19:28:24 1999 From: Roberto Alsina Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:28:24 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Nice thing to have: generic undelete X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=91772467816956 On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote: > > Attached to the gui code and also activated for the commandline rm > command, this little tool can prove intself really useful in a desktop > environment. At least until the long promissed replacement of ext2 comes > our way. Indeed. Imagine the wastebasket catching your innd expires ;-) Seriously, it can be really useful! > > ------------------------- > > From: Michael Meskes > Subject: Wastebasket library - safe file deletion package > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce > Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:23:24 GMT > > I just upload the initial version (1.0) of my wastebasket package to > metalab and tsx. It is (hopefully) helpful for those people like me who > tend to do an 'rm *' in the wrong directory. It provides a shared library > libwastebasket.so that implements a new unlink library call. If this > library is preloaded calling unlink() will not really remove the file, but > move it into the wastebasket. > > There are also some programs provided to access, restore or purge the > deleted files: > - wbls: list contents of the wastebasket > - wbdu: summarizes disk usage of the wastebasket > - wbrestore: restore file(s) > - wbpurge: remove parts of the wastebasket > - realrm: really remove a file no matter if libwastebasket is > installed or not > > Michael > > P.S.: I'm certainly interested in feedback. > > - -- Michael Meskes | > > Email: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net > > ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina@unl.edu.ar (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' Centro de Telematica _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' Universidad Nacional del Litoral (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Santa Fe - Argentina KDE Developer (MFCH) Life isn't short. It's just that death is longer.