Or you could use mv ~/.Trash filename and not have to modify anything.

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Whoops! Make that mv filename ~/.Trash

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Did you read the script? That's basically what this function does. The last statement does the mv to the Trash.

But it does a couple more things to make things easy. If you have a collision, there's something already in the Trash with the same name, it appends a timestamp. Also, it strips out any options you might have passed to what you thought was rm.

(The only other thing I'd add would be a "touch" loop, since I have a cron job that automatically deletes things in the Trash that have been in there more than a month or so. I never have to think about emptying the Trash. But I need to "touch" files I move to the Trash so that they don't get deleted at the wrong time.)

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He read the script, but is asking why use a script or function to replace a standard command when you can just type a little bit extra?

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