Sourcing alias from .bashrc for rm -rf

[kenderipa]

Hello,

I've decided to use trash system-wide, including for nnn. Trash management programs supported by nnn are way too heavy for me dependency-wise, so I'm not using them. Intead, I've decided to use a more lightweight program (rmw). I've aliased it in my .bashrc (alias rm=rmw), and it works everywhere, except for nnn. nnn ignores it and seemingly keeps using "true" rm -rf, completely bypassing my trash directory. Now I know that my .bashrc is sourced correctly, since NNN_FIFO, NNN_PLUG and NNN_OPENER work and can be seen in the help. Can I somehow source my rm alias for nnn too? Thanks!

[N-R-K]

Can I somehow source my rm alias for nnn too?

Shell aliases are for interactive shell interactions. It doesn't get passed to other processes.

[kenderipa]

Can I somehow source my rm alias for nnn too?

Shell aliases are for interactive shell interactions. It doesn't get passed to other processes.

So there's no way right now? Would a feature request make sense?

[kenderipa]

Can I somehow source my rm alias for nnn too?

Shell aliases are for interactive shell interactions. It doesn't get passed to other processes.

So there's no way right now? Would a feature request make sense?

Not for the alias sourcing, of course, but for the use of external remove binaries.

[0xACE]

I dont use the trash functionality, so I can't tell what behavior you are expecting

but basically you would probably get away by replacing sed 's/"rm\b/"rmw/g' nnn.c if your rmw supports the same flags as rm after that just run git diff and process each line for potential issues.

[N-R-K]

So there's no way right now? Would a feature request make sense?

Without editing the source code, not really (you can make a dummy wrapper script trash-put but maybe that's a bit hacky).

See #1963 (comment) for a proposed solution.

[N-R-K]

master branch now supports custom command in $NNN_TRASH. You don't need to patch the source or use some wrapper anymore. See the wiki and manpage for more info.