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A shell function to make 'rm' move files to the trash
Authored by: marbx on Fri, Feb 29 2008 at 12:04PM PST

You're very welcome. After deleting Desktop, I was kicking myself for a day or two before I starting thinking about how to prevent it from happening again. At least some good eventually came out of it. :)