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Turns red the stderr output

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4455706 Show Sample Output
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color ls <non existent path>
```
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color()(set -o pipefail;"$@" 2>&1>&3|sed $'s,.*,\e[31m&\e[m,'>&2)3>&1

bkmeneguello · 2013-01-30 13:42:03 8
Bash function do emulate send to trash files

# put into .bashrc function trash() { if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage: trash filename" else local TRASH="${HOME}/.local/share/Trash" if [ ! -d "$TRASH/files" ]; then mkdir -p "$TRASH/files"; fi if [ ! -d "$TRASH/info" ]; then mkdir -p "$TRASH/info"; fi local IFS_BKP=$IFS IFS=' ' for FILE in $@ ; do local BASE=$( basename "$FILE" ) local TRASH_NAME="$BASE" local COUNTER=1 while [ -e "$TRASH/files/$TRASH_NAME" ]; do COUNTER=`expr $COUNTER + 1` TRASH_NAME="$BASE.$COUNTER" done local FULL_PATH=$( readlink -f "$FILE" ) local DATE=$( date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S ) mv "$FULL_PATH" "$TRASH/files/$TRASH_NAME" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "[Trash Info] Path=$FULL_PATH DeletionDate=$DATE" > "$TRASH/info/$TRASH_NAME.trashinfo" fi done IFS=$IFS_BKP fi }
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trash <file>

bkmeneguello · 2012-11-22 18:05:11 5

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