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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Nice thing to have: generic undelete
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-01-30 19:28:24
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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 <Michael.Meskes@gmx.net> 
> 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
> 
> 

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