Command line utility to safely delete a directory. This is a safer alternative to rm -rf.
- This utility will only delete subdirectories of the current working directory.
- It will never traverse to the parent directory.
- It only allows you to delete one directory at a time
- It asks for confirmation before deletion
The standard utility rm has the following typical issue. Let's say you're in the directory /home/user/ and you want to delete the folder music. If you're using tab completion it will usually append a slash to the folder you're trying to delete like so: rm -rf music/. This is quite dangerous because one additional space will mean you're deleting the root folder: rm -rf music /
rmd dir_to_delete
You need to have the rust language compiler, rustc installed, then:
cargo build --release
sudo cp ./target/release/rmd /usr/local/bin/