Safe substitute for OS X `rm`?

Question

I am used to having rm to alias something safer.

I have been using osx-trash, but once I upgrade to Ruby 1.9.2, this stops working.

I know about trash-cli from Python, but I would much prefer something that moves files to the Trash folder in OS X rather than another directory.

Does anyone have a good solution?

Answer 1

hasseg.org/trash: an Objective-C utility like osx-trash.

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Use OS X's trash in a Finder-like way from Terminal - Mac OS X Hints: mactrash, a ~100 line shell script

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trsh() {
    for f in "$@"; do
        bn="$(basename "$f")"
        while [ -e ~/.Trash/"$bn" ]; do
            bn="$bn $(date +%H.%M.%S %p)"
        done
        mv "$f" ~/.Trash/"$bn"
    done
}

• Appends a date to the names of existing files
• Always moves files to the boot volume's trash though