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A shell function to make 'rm' move files to the trash
Authored by: gpitts on Fri, Feb 29 2008 at 10:03AM PST

I've used something like this for years, but I call it 'dl' (for delete) so it's never confused with the real rm. Also, I move the files to <Trash>/yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss/ so I can easily empty the trash of files older than some amount. Over the years this has saved me from near disaster several times. But the last time I had to restore a file I just used time machine...