trash-cli trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions. It uses the same trashcan used by KDE, GNOME, and XFCE, but you can invoke it from the command line (and scripts).
It provides these commands:
trash-put trash files and directories.
trash-empty empty the trashcan(s).
trash-list list trashed files.
trash-restore restore a trashed file.
trash-rm remove individual files from the trashcan.
Trash a file:
$ trash-put foo
List trashed files:
$ trash-list
2008-06-01 10:30:48 /home/andrea/bar
2008-06-02 21:50:41 /home/andrea/bar
2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foo
Search for a file in the trashcan:
$ trash-list | grep foo
2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo
Restore a trashed file:
$ trash-restore
0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
4 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo
What file to restore [0..4]: 4
$ ls foo
foo
Restore multiple trashed files separated by ',', also support range:
$ trash-restore
0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
What file to restore [0..3]: 0-2, 3
$ ls foo bar bar2 foo2
foo bar bar2 foo2
Remove all files from the trashcan:
$ trash-empty
Remove only the files that have been deleted more than <days> ago:
$ trash-empty <days>
Example:
$ date
Tue Feb 19 20:26:52 CET 2008
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
2008-02-18 20:11:34 /home/einar/yesterday
2008-02-10 20:11:34 /home/einar/last_week
$ trash-empty 7
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
2008-02-18 20:11:34 /home/einar/yesterday
$ trash-empty 1
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
Remove only files matching a pattern:
$ trash-rm \*.o
Note: you need to use quotes in order to protect the pattern from shell expansion.
Steps :
sudo mkdir --parent /.Trash
sudo chmod a+rw /.Trash
sudo chmod +t /.Trash
You can but you shouldn't. In the early days I thought it was a good idea to do that but now I changed my mind.
Although the interface of trash-put seems to be compatible with rm, it has different semantics which will cause you problems. For example, while rm requires -R for deleting directories trash-put does not.
You could alias rm to something that will remind you to not use it:
alias rm='echo "This is not the command you are looking for."; false'
Then, if you really want to use rm, simply prepend a slash to bypass the alias:
\rm file-without-hope
Note that Bash aliases are used only in interactive shells, so using this alias should not interfere with scripts that expect to use rm.
File trashed from the home partition will be moved here:
~/.local/share/Trash/
Requirements:
- Python 3 (Python 2.7 may work)
- pip (use apt-get install python-pip on Debian)
Installation command:
pip install trash-cli
System-wide installation:
git clone https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli.git
cd trash-cli
sudo pip install .
User-only installation:
git clone https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli.git
cd trash-cli
pip install .
After the user installation you may want add this line to your .bashrc:
export PATH=~/.local/bin:"$PATH"
For uninstalling use:
pip uninstall trash-cli
Debian/Ubuntu (apt):
sudo apt install trash-cli
If you discover a bug please report it here:
You can also email me to andrea@andreafrancia.it. On Twitter I'm @andreafrancia.
Environment setup:
virtualenv env --no-site-packages
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt -r requirements.txt
Running tests:
pytest -m 'not slow' # run only fast tests
pytest -m 'slow' # run slow tests
pytest # run all tests
Check the installation process before release:
python check_release_installation.py