dl 0.1.1 - deletes files in a recoverable fashion. Copyright 2001-2002 Austin Jennings dl is protected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file 'COPYING' for details. dl is a quick solution to the difficulty of recovering deleted files on most UNIX filesystems. Place the dl script in a directory in your path, or place it in your homedir and use your favorite shell to alias 'dl' to the full path of the script. Now you can safely remove files by typing: dl file1 file2 file3 ... All given files will be compressed and moved to ~/.dl/, and the current time will be prepended to the filename. By default, each time you use dl, it searches ~/.dl/ for files whose names indicate that they are over a day old and permanently deletes them. dl provides several options which modify the behavior of the script. Type 'dl -h' for a list of options and what they do. If a .dlrc file is present in your homedir, dl reads it upon startup. The .dlrc file can set your stash directory, the age at while files are permanently deleted, the size at which dl will warn you that your stash directory is getting too large, what file extensions indicate that a file should not be compressed, and whether any command-line arguments are on by default. See the file 'dlrc.example' for an example .dlrc file. Please note that as of dl 0.1.0 the format of .dlrc has changed. dl was designed for Unix-like systems with GNU fileutils, bzip2, and tar. If your system is different, you should probably look over the variables at the start of the script and make sure they're correct for your system. dl does not automate undeletion; if you want a file back, just look through your ~/.dl/ directory for the file and move it somewhere else. If you need to recover a file that was permanently deleted on an ext2 filesystem, I suggest giving Tom Pycke's recover utility a shot. The recover project's homepage can be found at http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/. If you have any questions, suggestions, bug reports, etc., you can submit them to our sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dlutil/ or email the author at axial@users.sourceforge.net. The author is not to be held responsible for any damages or loss of data which result from the use of dl. See the file 'COPYING' for complete warranty information. $Id: readme,v 1.3 2002/06/21 14:22:14 axial Exp $