_______  _______  _______  _______         ______    __   __ 
|       ||   _   ||       ||       |       |    _ |  |  |_|  |
|  _____||  |_|  ||    ___||    ___| ____  |   | ||  |       |
| |_____ |       ||   |___ |   |___ |____| |   |_||_ |       |
|_____  ||       ||    ___||    ___|       |    __  ||       |
 _____| ||   _   ||   |    |   |___        |   |  | || ||_|| |
|_______||__| |__||___|    |_______|       |___|  |_||_|   |_|

A much safer replacement of bash rm

Mac OS X ONLY so far.

Using safe-rm, the files or directories you choose to remove will move to Trash(OS X) instead of simply deleting them. You could put them back whenever you want manually.

If a file or directory with the same name already exists in the Trash, the name of newly-deleted items will be ended with the current date and time.

Install

Normally:

make && sudo make install
# and enjoy

For those who have no make command:

sudo sh install.sh

Installing safe-rm will replace the original /bin/rm of Mac OS X which will be backed up before replacing.

After installation, when you execute rm command in the Terminal, lines of below will be printed:

> rm
safe-rm
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
   unlink file

which helps to tell safe-rm from the original rm.

Uninstall

make && sudo make uninstall

Or

sudo sh uninstall.sh