preventing the accidental deletion of important files
Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and directories that should never be removed.
Users who attempt to delete one of these protected files or directories will not be able to do so and will be shown a warning message instead:
$ rm -rf /usr
Skipping /usr
(Protected paths can be set both at the site and user levels.)
Recovering important files you deleted by mistake can be quite hard. Protect yourself today by installing safe-rm and reduce the likelihood that you will need to contact a data recovery service!
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All packages Packages in Distributions
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safe-rm source package in Xenial
Version 0.12-2 uploaded on 2016-01-19 -
safe-rm source package in Trusty
Version 0.10-4 uploaded on 2014-02-01 -
safe-rm source package in Precise
Version 0.8-4 uploaded on 2010-12-22 -
safe-rm source package in Groovy
Version 0.12-9 uploaded on 2019-07-12 -
safe-rm source package in Focal
Version 0.12-9 uploaded on 2019-07-12
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1854103: Rewrite in Rust
Reported on 2019-11-26 -
Bug #1854102: Blacklist /usr/bin/env by default
Reported on 2019-11-26 -
Bug #1398437: Trailing slash in .config/safe-rm don't work as expected
Reported on 2014-12-02 -
Bug #1260930: Protect files which are bind-mounted
Reported on 2013-12-14 -
Bug #1097972: lib32 and lib64 not covered
Reported on 2013-01-09
More contributors Top contributors
- nkr 51 points
- François Marier 20 points
