Changing the functionality of rm command

[Sumit Chawla]

Hi All
I am required to add some additional functionality to rm command. For
examople displaying the space being freed on deletion of the command.
For that I dont want to make any changes to the existing rm command.
But I need to define some utility with same name as rm. Such that my
utility shpould be called whenevr the user issues the rm utitlity. How
to do that ? Please guide.


Regards

Sumit Chawla("eNetra")
Slogan: "Hail the Invention"

 

[Giannis Papadopoulos]

Hi All
I am required to add some additional functionality to rm command. For
examople displaying the space being freed on deletion of the command.
For that I dont want to make any changes to the existing rm command.
But I need to define some utility with same name as rm. Such that my
utility shpould be called whenevr the user issues the rm utitlity. How
to do that ? Please guide.


Regards

Sumit Chawla("eNetra")
Slogan: "Hail the Invention"

This doesn't have anything to do with C...

[OT]
Why don't you create a script that computes the size of the
to-be-deleted files and then delete them?
[/OT]


--
one's freedom stops where others' begin

Giannis Papadopoulos
http://dop.users.uth.gr/
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

 

[Walter Roberson]

I am required to add some additional functionality to rm command. For
examople displaying the space being freed on deletion of the command.

That could seriously break your systems administration scripts.

For that I dont want to make any changes to the existing rm command.
But I need to define some utility with same name as rm. Such that my
utility shpould be called whenevr the user issues the rm utitlity. How
to do that ? Please guide.

That smells like a Unix question, and should probably be asked in
a newsgroup appropriate for your brand of Unix.
(Hint: read about PATH)