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Rmw Changelog

What's new in Rmw 0.98.4.2 Beta

Apr 27, 2012
  • Added options r,R, and f to prevent error messages.
  • Commented out the line that prints out a series of hyphens as a separator.

New in Rmw 0.98.4.1 Beta (Jun 29, 2011)

  • Bugfix: fixed -a option (which I broke in the last release)

New in Rmw 0.98.4.0 Beta (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Bugfix: rmw sees dead symbolic links as not writable. Fixed.
  • (Jun 21, 2011) Eliminated freq_scan_clean variable. rmw will
  • now check only once per day if clean mode is enabled.
  • (Jun 22, 2011) If clean mode is enabled, when run, rmw Will
  • check all Alt_Waste folders once per day
  • (Jun 23, 2011) Added RELEASE notes file
  • (Jun 25) rmw -2 now displays disk usage for all Alt_Waste folders
  • (Jun 25) du_args variable added to rmwrc (options for du, used with
  • (Jun 25) Alt_Waste folders now in $RMWCONF/Alt_Waste.cfg, will
  • not be overwritten by a config file upgrade. See RELEASE notes
  • Changed date string (date +%H%M%S-%y%m%d) which is appened when
  • ReMoving a file with the same name as an existing file
  • A little more code-tightening.
  • Added option to enabled/disable color
  • If user wants to enable color, add color=1 rmwrc
  • Echoes message when creating Alternate Waste directories
  • Bugfix: -s doesn't work properly if a dead symlink is in Waste
  • directory. Fixed.
  • Changed some defaults that get set when config file is created:
  • prompt_on_clean=0, prompt_on_dir=0,showver=0
  • Bugfix: If rmw'ing multiple files and some are in different
  • directories, gfp_info function not working properly. Fixed.

New in Rmw 0.98.3.9 Beta (Mar 4, 2011)

  • Changed date string (date +%H%M%S-%y%m%d) which is appened when
  • ReMoving a file with the same name as an existing file
  • I've been told by an editor of a software directory site that rmw runs
  • on a Mac. On the ReMove to Waste summary page, I've added the category:
  • All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X)
  • http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Rmw.shtml
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/rmw/forums/forum/881943/topic/4073856
  • A little more code-tightening.
  • Added option to enabled/disable color
  • If user wants to enable color, add color=1 rmwrc
  • Echoes message when creating Alternate Waste directories
  • Bugfix: -s doesn't work properly if a dead symlink is in Waste
  • directory. Fixed.
  • Changed some defaults that get set when config file is created:
  • prompt_on_clean=0, prompt_on_dir=0,showver=0
  • Bugfix: If rmw'ing multiple files and some are in different directories,
  • gfp_info function not working properly. Fixed.

New in Rmw 0.98.3.8 Beta (Jan 26, 2011)

  • Bugfix: -P added to call to pwd in function gfp_info()
  • Improved efficiency to gfp_info()
  • Thanks to catkin for Numbers 1 & 2
  • http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/user/catkin-444761/
  • Updated License Information
  • Until a future time, only rmw source and Slackware packages will be made
  • available for download. To convert with alien and make sure other pkg formats
  • are compliant would be a time investment I'm not willing to make right now.

New in Rmw 0.98.3.5 Beta (Jan 18, 2011)

  • Upon cleaning, user receives confirmation to recursively and forcibly delete directories.
  • Checks for existence of desktop trash folder if DesktopTrash is enabled.
  • Checks for last restore file if using -u (Thanks rtrev)
  • Notifies user if he or she is attempting to ReMove a directory. Can be turned off. (Thanks Harv)
  • After restoring a file, .rmw info files are deleted without prompting
  • Dot files are now processed during a clean
  • Can now specify Desktop Trash Folder on fly from the command line. See FAQ for details.
  • Ignore files named ., .., and files that aren't writeable
  • Changed method of protecting Waste, Desktop Trash folder, and rmw configuration directory
  • Turn off the check for files to clean by adding
  • clean_mode=0 to config file. 1 to enable.
  • Files that aren't writable are ignored
  • Can select alternate Waste folder at startup (Thanks to rtrev)
  • Can select alternate Desktop Trash folder at startup
  • Can enable console waste (disable Desktop Trash) using cmd line option
  • Added option to generate auto-clean script (clean with no confirmation)
  • Added man page
  • Improved help display.
  • Options to turn off prompting during clean

New in Rmw 0.98.3.3 Beta (Jan 6, 2011)

  • I just received an error on Debian Lenny that ~/.local/share/Trash/info
  • doesn't exist when I had desktop trash enabled in rmw. It would appear that
  • some Desktop Environments don't use the trashinfo system. Fixed.
  • Using alien on Debian Lenny, I've created deb,rpm and lsb packages.
  • Slackware packages made on Slackware 13.1 with makepkg. These files, as
  • well as the source package, will be added to the file release section on
  • the rmw sourceforge project page.

New in Rmw 0.98.3.2 Beta (Jan 5, 2011)

  • Added support to change Waste directory on the fly at the command line.
  • See FAQ for details.

New in Rmw 0.971 (Aug 18, 2009)

  • added file: install-sh (required by configure)
  • changed #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash in configure
  • added file: rmwrc.example (probably not needed,
  • your rmwrc file should be auto-created when you run
  • rmw the first time)
  • A few other minor changes and bug fixes