This is the command safe-rm that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
safe-rm - wrapper around the rm command to prevent accidental deletions
USAGE
safe-rm [ ... ] (same arguments as rm)
DESCRIPTION
safe-rm prevents the accidental deletion of important files by replacing rm with a wrapper
which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and directories
which should never be removed.
Users who attempt to delete one of these protected files or directories will not be able
to do so and will be shown a warning message instead.
safe-rm is meant to replace the rm command so you can achieve this by putting a symbolic
link with the name "rm" in a directory which sits at the front of your path. For example,
given this path:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
You could create the following symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/safe-rm /usr/local/bin/rm
CONFIGURATION
Protected paths can be set both at the site and user levels.
Both of these configuration files can contain a list of important files or directories
(one per line):
/etc/safe-rm.conf
~/.config/safe-rm
If both of these are empty, a default list of important paths will be used.
/usr/lib/*
will protect all of the files inside the /usr/lib directory if they are referred to
directly, but it will not protect your system against:
rm -rf /usr/lib
For a full protection, you should include both of these lines:
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/*
EXIT STATUS
Same exit status as the real rm command.
Note that if all file arguments are skipped by safe-rm then the exit status will be the
same as the exit status of the real rm when no files arguments are present.
Use safe-rm online using onworks.net services
