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 fooList 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/fooSearch 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/fooRestore 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
fooRestore 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 foo2Remove all files from the trashcan:
$ trash-emptyRemove 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/todayRemove only files matching a pattern:
$ trash-rm \*.oNote: 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 /.TrashYou 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 backslash to bypass the alias:
\rm file-without-hopeNote 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/Run this:
(crontab -l ; echo "@daily $(which trash-empty) 30") | crontab -This will update your crontab file with a trash-empty command that runs daily and removes files older than 30 days. To review your crontab use: crontab -l
Requirements:
- Python 3 (Python 2.7 may work)
- pip (use apt-get install python-pip on Debian, use apt install python3-pip on Ubuntu)
Installation command:
pip install trash-cliNote: you may want add ~/.local/bin to the PATH:
echo 'export PATH="$PATH":~/.local/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc # reload .bashrcSystem-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-cliDebian/Ubuntu (apt):
sudo apt install trash-cliIf you discover a bug please report it here:
You can also email me to [email protected]. On Twitter I'm @andreafrancia.
Environment setup:
virtualenv env --no-site-packages
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt -r requirements.txtRunning tests:
pytest -m 'not slow' # run only fast tests
pytest -m 'slow' # run slow tests
pytest # run all tests
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