Dustman - A safer rm

A simple tool to make rm a little more safe.

It puts files in the user's trash instead of deleting them immediately. It is not a one-to-one drop in for rm and for now, only supports Darwin.

Note Linux support is a WIP and if you want to help, feel free to join me.

Build

1. Install Swift
2. Clone this Repository
3. Build the Dustman executable
   1. If you have just installed, run just build
   2. Otherwise, just run swift build -c release --product Dustman
4. Copy the executable from .build/release/Dustman to a directory in your $PATH
   1. On Darwin or Linux, this could be /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin

Notes

I would not recommend to alias rm to Dustman as the Dustman CLI is not flag-compatible to rm. Therefore an alias could break some shell-scripts. Instead alias it to trash or just use it as Dustman.

Current Limitations

Deleting files whose deletion would require root privileges is not supported, because Dustman always reverts the UID to the user's own UID. Otherwise, the deleted files would end up in the root's trash and therefore are not recoverable by the user.

One last thing

You're welcome to contribute to this project.

Licensed under the MIT License.

Build with ❤️ by Jan Fooken