rm -R [SOLVED]

[Tim Henderson]

First reply was plenty.

Thanks,
Tim H.

On 07/21/10 14:34, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Tim Henderson<bizdev at pwnspeak.com>  wrote:
>> Quick question.  If I rm -R a few files and dirs, are they sent to any
>> sort of trash, or are they "gone" for good?
>>
>> In unix I know rm'd files go to .Trash, at least on my versino of
>> FreeBSD, however not sure about Ubuntu.
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> rm does not have any knowledge of .Trash. I think the rm you are using
> is an alias or wrapper
> which introduces the .Trash.
>
> not only unix, even on windows if you remove (del) from command prompt
> it removes the file permanently.
>
> removing through gui is just a wrapper that introduces all kind of tricks
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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