Show HN: rm-safely – A shell alias that moves files to trash instead of deleting

Summary

rm safely. rm-safely is a safety shell alias to prevent the accidental deletion of important files, especially, default MacOS rm This is just a handy shell wrapping function along with option to directly invoke /bin/rm with --rm . If you always use /bin/rm -i , you probabaly don't need this alias, since it would already be your best bet. But, with the alias, it can prevent you in case of autocomplete from shell history that left of with random rm -rf Note that, The current implementation saves files in ~/.local/share/Trash which persists across reboots. which persists across reboots. Tested on macOS 15.5+ Demo Install Via curl, curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdk/rm-safely/main/rm-safely | bash -s install Or via homebrew, brew install zdk/tools/rm-safely Usage Use rm command to delete things as usual, but safer ＼(◎o◎)／ In other words when you run rm -rf file directory/ You will have files/dir the trash first, then you can decide to delete or clean them later on. Really Remove If you don't really care to move it to Trash first. Use rm --rm , e.g. rm --rm file directory/ Or, you can just use /bin/rm directly. Additional features rm --list-trash # Show trash contents rm --empty-trash # Empty trash rm --show-trash-path # Display the trash directory path Uninstall