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 trashes 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 trash can.
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
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
To remove only files matching a pattern:
$ trash-rm \*.o
Note: you need to use quotes in order to protect 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 do that but now I changed my mind.
The interface of trash-put seems to be compatible with rm it has a different semantic that will cause you problems. For example, while rm requires -R for deleting directories trash-put does not.
You may 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'
If you really want use rm simply prepend a slash:
\rm file-without-hope
Note that Bash aliases are used only in interactive shells, so using this alias should not interfere with scripts that expects to use rm.
Requirements:
- Python 2.7
- setuptools (use apt-get install python-setuptools on Debian)
Installation command:
easy_install trash-cli
System-wide installation:
git clone https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli.git cd trash-cli sudo python setup.py install
User-only installation:
git clone https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli.git cd trash-cli python setup.py install --user
If you discover a bug please report it to:
https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues
Mail me at 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
Running tests:
nosetests unit_tests # run only unit tests nosetests integration_tests # run all integration tests nosetests -A 'not stress_test' # run all tests but stress tests nosetests # run all tests
Check the installation process before release:
python check_release_installation.py
Profiling unit tests:
pip install gprof2dot nosetests --with-profile --profile-stats-file stats.pf --profile-restrict=unit_tests unit_tests gprof2dot -w -f pstats stats.pf | dot -Tsvg >| stats.svg open stats.svg