Stop using rm!! Safely move files to the trash instead using delete.

delete.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $1 = "-trash" ]] || [[ $1 = "-t" ]] 
then 
  while true 
  do read -p "Are you sure you want to permanently delete the trash? (yes/no): " yn 
    case $yn in  
      [Yy]* ) break;; 
      [Nn]* ) echo "Aborted the operation"; exit 0;; 
      * ) echo "Please answer yes or no. Do you want to permanently delete the trash? (yes/no)";; 
    esac 
  done

  rm -rf ~/.Trash/*; exit 0; 
fi 
if [[ $@ = *"*"* ]] || [[ $@ = "." ]]; then echo "exited operation"; exit 1; fi

for var in "$@"
# for each argument move the file or directory to the trash
do
  filename=${var##*/}
  name=$filename
  if [[ -f $filename ]] || [[ -d $filename ]]
  # does the proposed file exist?
  then
    if [[ -f ~/.Trash/$var ]] || [[ -d ~/.Trash/$var ]]
    # if the file or directory already exists in the trash then append the filename with a count
    then 
      bool=true; count=0
      while [ $bool = true ]
      do
        count=$(( $count + 1 ))
        name=$filename"-"$count
        if [[ ! -f ~/.Trash/$name ]] &&  [[ ! -d ~/.Trash/$name ]]; then bool=false; fi
        # if the new name is unique in the trash then break the while loop
      done
    fi

    mv -f $var ~/.Trash/$name
  else
    echo $var" was not found."; exit 1;
  fi
done