Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:

> Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from
> the cygwin shell window/command line?

Yes.  In your ~/.bashrc:

RECYCLE_BIN_PATH="<location of your recycle bin>"
function rm() { mv "$@" "$RECYCLE_BIN_PATH" }

The one gotcha of the above is that "mv" will get the options passed to
"rm" - not sure if there are any discrepancies.  However, if you stick to
"rm -r" and "rm -f", you should be fine.

The procedure for finding the location of the recycle bin depends on your
operating system and your setup.  On my Win2k machine, I can simply use

RECYCLE_BIN_PATH="/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/`ls -t /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER|head -1`"

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