rmx

Multiplatform drop in replacement for GNU rm with extra features

About

This project is a close port of GNU rm. The idea is extending the functionality around rm API and bring some niceties with improved performance, specially for large files and deeply nested directories.

Features

• [x] :penguin: Original GNU rm api
• [x] :paperclip: System trash bin integration (-t)
• [x] :zap: Blazingly fast
• [ ] :mag_right: More filtering options
• [ ] :smile: You tell me

Benchmarks

Benches are defined here

Running

cargo bench

Comparison

| remove | rmx | rm | rmt | |----------------------------|-----|----|-------| | files |5.7739ms|14.121ms|7.2263ms| | recursively nested folders |5.7798ms|14.128ms|7.3677ms| | multiple deeply nested folders |5.2066ms|14.669ms|7.2347ms| | multiple deeply nested folders (rip mode) |4.6359ms|14.160ms|7.5436ms|

numbers obtained on a XPS 13 9300, at commit: 7929f6

Examples

Deleting deeply nested directory (blazingly fast)

rmx --rip node_modules

Sending files to system trash bin

rmx file1 file2 -t

Follow symlinks (unix only)

rmx --follow-links link

Standard GNU rm usage

• rmx --one-file-system -i *.txt handles more glob matching args, rm panics at ~10k+ matches`
• rmx --preserve-root=/home --interactive=once /home/*/*
• rmx --verbose -rf --no-preserve-root /

Installation

Currently only obtainable via crates.io and this repo.

cargo install rmx

AUR (soon)

Prebuilt binaries (soon)

Pro-tip:

Put in your favorite Shell rc file: alias rm='rmx'

Disclaimer

1. Do not trust this tool for automation/production usage, this is not a 1:1 port of GNU rm and the underlying system calls are not the same.
2. You may experience different performance results, overall rmx improves the computation load. I/O might still be your biggest bottleneck.