Honestly, after re-reading my own comment, I’m considering just putting some stupid-simple wrapper around mv that moves files to a dedicated trash bin. I’ll just delete the trash bin every now and then…
-Proceeds to collect 300 GB of build files and scrapped virtual environments over the coming month-
Then can alias rm to echo Use trash instead! or something. You wanna build new habits, not co-opt rm, it could happen easily that you’re ssh’d into a system where your rm alias doesn’t exist or similar
I think one solution is (browseable) Snapshots
Honestly, after re-reading my own comment, I’m considering just putting some stupid-simple wrapper around
mvthat moves files to a dedicated trash bin. I’ll just delete the trash bin every now and then…-Proceeds to collect 300 GB of build files and scrapped virtual environments over the coming month-
There are solutions already. Just use them instead of
rmhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trash_management
Then can alias rm to
echo Use trash instead!or something. You wanna build new habits, not co-opt rm, it could happen easily that you’re ssh’d into a system where your rm alias doesn’t exist or similar