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-cite about-plugin
-about-plugin 'soft delete by moving contents into a hidden folder in tmp'
-
-# the tmp folder gets cleared on reboot
-# so this would actually remove the file on
-# shutdown
-function del() { mkdir -p /tmp/.trash && mv "$@" /tmp/.trash; }