A drop-in replacement for rm that copies files to the Gnome trash rather than deleting them.

rm.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A drop-in replacement for rm that copies files to the Gnome trash rather than
# deleting them.
# Doesn't quite support all of the rm options yet.

readonly progname="$(basename $0)"

function printHelpAndExit {
    exitCode=$1
    printf "Try \`rm --help' for more information.\n"
    exit $exitCode
}

function printLongHelpAndExit {
    exitCode=$1
    printf "Usage: rm [OPTION]... FILE...\n"
    printf "Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "  -f, --force           ignore nonexistent files, never prompt\n"
    printf "  -i                    prompt before every removal\n"
    printf "  -I                    prompt once before removing more than three files, or\n"
    printf "                          when removing recursively.  Less intrusive than -i,\n"
    printf "                          while still giving protection against most mistakes\n"
    printf "      --interactive[=WHEN]  prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or\n"
    printf "                          always (-i).  Without WHEN, prompt always\n"
    printf "      --one-file-system  when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any\n"
    printf "                          directory that is on a file system different from\n"
    printf "                          that of the corresponding command line argument\n"
    printf "      --no-preserve-root  do not treat \`/' specially\n"
    printf "      --preserve-root   do not remove \`/' (default)\n"
    printf "  -r, -R, --recursive   remove directories and their contents recursively\n"
    printf "  -v, --verbose         explain what is being done\n"
    printf "      --help     display this help and exit\n"
    printf "      --version  output version information and exit\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "By default, rm does not remove directories.  Use the --recursive (-r or -R)\n"
    printf "option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "To remove a file whose name starts with a \`-', for example '-foo',\n"
    printf "use one of these commands:\n"
    printf "  rm -- -foo\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "  rm ./-foo\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it is usually possible to recover\n"
    printf "the contents of that file.  If you want more assurance that the contents are\n"
    printf "truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "Report rm bugs to [email protected]\n"
    printf "GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>\n"
    printf "General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>\n"
    exit $exitCode
}

function printErrorMessage {
	printf "%s: %s\n" "$1" "$2" 1>&2
}
function printErrorHelpAndExit {
	printErrorMessage "$progname" "$1"
	printHelpAndExit $2
}

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
    printLongHelpAndExit 0
fi

# Check for --help special case
for i in $*
do
    case $i in
    --help)
        printLongHelpAndExit 0
        ;;
    esac
done

SHORTOPTS="fiIrRv"
LONGOPTS="force,interactive:,one-file-system,no-preserve-root,preserve-root,recursive,verbose,help,version"

OPTS=$(getopt --options $SHORTOPTS --longoptions $LONGOPTS -n "$progname" -- "$@")
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    printHelpAndExit $?
fi

echo "$OPTS"
#echo "prefix: $PREFIX"