Alternative to the rm Command in Linux

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As is know to all, it can be dangerous to use the rm command directly in Linux/Unix. A simple idea is to define other commands/alias/script to replace it. For example, I have a shell script named trash which moves files (as input arguments) to the system's Trash directory.

trash files_to_remove

Another even simplier way is to directly move files to the directory /tmp.

mv files_to_remove /tmp