preventing the accidental deletion of important files
Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and directories that 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:
$ rm -rf /usr Skipping /usr
(Protected paths can be set both at the site and user levels.)
Recovering important files you deleted by mistake can be quite hard. Protect yourself today by installing safe-rm and reduce the likelihood that you will need to contact a data recovery service!
(Linux/UNIX source code).
A new version of safe-rm was released to fix a problem reported by Teresa e Junior.
If you've ever seen the following error:
Insecure $ENV{IFS} while running with -t switch at /usr/bin/rm line 110.
Insecure dependency in system while running with -t switch
at /usr/bin/rm line 110.
then you should upgrade. Otherwise, you can keep the version you have.
