rmtrash
coreutils
rmtrash | coreutils | |
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7 | 112 | |
303 | 4,024 | |
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3.7 | 9.3 | |
8 months ago | 9 days ago | |
Shell | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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rmtrash
- Just accidentally nuked ~90% of my video library
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btrfs-undelete: A simple script for recovering just-deleted files, directories, and wildcards. This script saved my ass just now. (GPLv2)
There's also rmtrash which is a handy compromise, especially if you use an autocompletion.
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Linux tool alternatives: 6 replacements for traditional favorites
trash-cli and rmtrash : send files to trash instead of deleting it permanently.
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trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin
So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?
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How many times have you installed Arch Linux?
Three initial times on my desktop, laptop and home server and then a few reinstalls after I sudo rm -rf'ed both my desktop and my laptop, lol. Now I use rmtrash.
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What does "rm" delete first?
This would be helpful for the future: https://github.com/PhrozenByte/rmtrash
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Can't believe the community?
There are tools explicitly designed for stuff like this, like rmtrash and alias rm=rm -i. However, like everything, tools aren't a foolproof solution: they can only help from making accidental mistakes.
coreutils
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GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv and cat Commands
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1...
A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 are:
* mv accepts --exchange to swap files
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
> some are simple like yes(1)
Not that simple: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
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Show HN: Usr/bin/env Docker run
The -S / --split-string option[1] of /usr/bin/env is a relatively recent addition to GNU Coreutils. It's available starting from GNU Coreutils 8.30[2], released on 2018-07-01.
Beware of portability: it relies on a non-standard behavior from some operating systems. It only works for OS's that treat all the text after the first space as argument(s) to the shebanged executable; rather than just treating the whole string as an executable path (that can happen to contain spaces).
Fortunately this non-standard behavior is more the norm than the exception: it works at least on modern GNU/Linux, BSDs, and macOS.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-...
[2] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/b09dc6306e7affaf...
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From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
> building a cat from scratch
> That would be an interesting project.
Here is the source code of the OpenBSD implementation of cat:
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c
and here of the GNU coreutils implementation:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c
Thus: I don't think building a cat from scratch or creating a tutorial about that topic is particularly hard (even though the HN audience would likely be interested in it). :-)
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The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf]
the yes command, writing to /dev/null, is making IO calls, which interfere with predictable scheduling.
If you look at the source code for yes, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
it builds a buffer of output and then writes that in a for loop
while (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, buf, bufused) == bufused)
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nohup not working?
Looking at the source of nohup, if the execvp() of the child happens then it _must_ have already done the signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) so - WTF?
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Is it fair to say "ls" is dead? No commits in 15 years
This got me wondering so I went and looked and it seems like lo and behold there was actually a commit to the GNU ls source just 2 weeks ago.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c
"maint: prefer char32_t to wchar_t"
- The Tao of Programming
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Decoded: GNU Coreutils
even an empty file? Yes. so now it was a file with a copyright disclaimer and nothing else. And the koan-like question comes to mind is "Can you copyright nothing?" well AT&T sure tried.
Then somebody said our programs should be well defined and not depend on a fluke of unix, which at this point was probable a good idea. so it became "exit 0"
Then somebody said we should write our system utilities in C instead of shell so it runs faster. openbsd still has a good example of how this would look.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr....
At some point gnu bureaucracy got involved and said all programs must support the '-h' flag. so that got added, then they said all programs must support locale so that got added. now days gnu true is an astonishing 80 lines long.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
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Exa Is Deprecated
> Yes, ls is maintained. Although, maintained is a very strong word. It exists.
Why would it be a strong word? Here it is, in src/ls.c: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils
It is then packaged by tens of operating system distributions, who themselves maintain extra patchsets, some of which are then upstreamed.
It is installed and used on millions (billions?) of devices, for 3 decades.
It's a very reliable and trusty "sharp stick of metal" :)
What are some alternatives?
trash-cli - Command line interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan.
util-linux
trash-d - A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin. Written in D
madaidans-insecurities
rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
busybox - BusyBox mirror
shell-safe-rm - 😎 Safe-rm: A drop-in and much safer replacement of bash rm with nearly full functionalities and options of the rm command! Safe-rm will act exactly the same as the original rm command.
src - Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
linux - Linux kernel source tree
sanoid - These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.)
gnulib - upstream mirror