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A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2024-10-21 · latest 2025-09-07

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  1. Rip2 is another useful alternative: https://github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2 I have a small wrapper around rip2, aliased to `recycle`; files go to a `graveyard` zfs dataset. I deny `rm` usage for agents, a simple (global) instruction pointing…
  2. …with 0700, not 0755. That change was one of the reasons for forking from the original rip. Code: https://github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2/blob/6165ed0c692b27f196...
    comment by mcranmer · 2025-08-31 · in Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm
  3. …with it for two minutes, the "undo" and "scance" functionality seemed to break: I have opened a bug https://github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2/issues/54 ]. am I doing something wrong?
    comment by guytv · 2024-10-21 · in Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm
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    Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm
    story by roflmaostc · 2024-10-21 · 66 comments