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Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm


A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm. Contribute to MilesCranmer/rip2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Deleted files get sent to the graveyard ðŸŠĶ (typically/tmp/graveyard-$USER, see notes on changing this) under their absolute path, giving you a chance to recover them 🧟. Finally, that repo was forked@here with ongoing maintenance: Added support for: Windows, NixOS Cleanup: refactoring to modern rust, merging PRs from original repo Testing: add full test suite and coverage monitoring Features: colorful output, datetime info in seance, Bug fixes: FIFO files, issue with seance Shell completions for bash, elvish, fish, powershell, zsh, and nushell (via clap) Unlearning muscle memory is hard, but it's harder to ensure that every rm you make (as different users, from different machines and application environments) is the aliased one.

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