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Re:Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipe... by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:03PM (#18294251)

You can make a trash command if you want and a cron job to periodically remove everything over x days old.

The default rm doesn't do this because shell users are supposed to be able to figure out how not to delete things they want to keep.

Kind of like not pointing a gun at people who you don't want to kill.

The undo for rm is regular backups.

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Re:Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipe... by drb91 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:21PM (#18294986)

Journaling works well here too, but in my experience the interface sucks on every platform. Eg, it should be trivial to view recent unlinks. There’s simply more reason to invest in backup software, which has an excellent interface even if it is a “heavy” operation.

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Re:Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipe... by Skunkleton on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:34PM (#18295622)

That is not what journaling is for. Journaling is for maintaining filesystem consistency. If you want access to recently deleted files that is a different task.

On my system I have snapshots of my home directory created every 15 minutes. Not quite the same thing, but it also helps me when I have incorrectly modified a file.

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Re:Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipe... by drb91 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:20PM (#18304678)

Well, it’s a loss for us all that the designers were not more imaginative.

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