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I don't think any GUI move items before a confirmation, so I don't see the link at all.

They almost universally do! They move stuff to a designated trash or recycle bin or whatever to stage for final deletion when you commit to it.

That's a very liberal way to define "confirmation", especially since modern OSes will delete trashed items on a rolling 30-day basis, without any further action.

To rephrase:

> mv dir .old-dir && rm -r .old-dir &

it's how most GUI desktops “delete” stuff, they just run the two actions separately

It's kind of a stretch anyway since the core idea of the command was the final `&`

> modern OSes will delete trashed items on a rolling 30-day basis, without any further action.

Hmm, the best I can find, no OS does this by default although all of them are capable of doing it.

Windows, if asking is enabled, will ask before moving into the recycle bin.

Once the file is in the recycle bin, it will probably be months before final deletion happens, and windows will not ask before doing so.

Unless you happen to start to run low on disk space; at that point, Storage Sense will kick in and start complaining about it - if you enable it without changing standard settings it deletes "trash bin" files every 30d.

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