athena-delete
athena-delete was written at Project Athena in response to the problem which many novice UNIX users have with accidentally deleting files they didn't want to delete.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 14 Sep 2001 07:26
Release Notes: Compilation fixes, including compilation on Linux (small Makefile changes still needed).
Recent comments
Unfortunately, recursive expunge (or purge) segfaults on modern Linux (Centos 5.2)
Reaping may not happen
The manual page talks about 'deleted' files being periodically reaped (by a process that deletes all files with names beginning .#). Of course this will not necessarily happen on today's systems.
Changes to compile
To compile on Linux, you need to change two definitions in the makefile. Set COMPILE_ET=compile_et and ETINCS=-I/usr/include/et. These are for the com_err error reporting library, which bizarrely (bugzilla.redhat.com/bu...) is supplied by e2fsprogs on some Linux distributions. Change these two definitions if com_err is installed somewhere else in your distribution.
ed_avis
14 Sep 2001 04:47
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