bneijt/autotrash

autotrash: error: no such option: -t

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SiqingYu commented

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
When I run this command:
autotrash -td 30

It shows an error:

Usage: autotrash -d <days of age to purge>

autotrash: error: no such option: -t
bneijt commented

Could you post the autotrash --help and autotrash --version output?

SiqingYu commented

Version 0.1.5
Copyright (C) 2008 A. Bram Neijt bneijt@gmail.com
License GPLv3+

SiqingYu commented

Usage: autotrash -d

Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DAYS, --days=DAYS delete files older then DAYS number of days.
-T PATH, --trash-path=PATH
set Trash path to PATH. Default: ~/.local/share/Trash
--max-free=M only run if less then M megabytes of free space is
left.
--delete=M delete at least M megabytes.
--min-free=M, --keep-free=M
set --delete to make use M megabytes of space is
available.
-D REGEX, --delete-first=REGEX
push files matching this REGEX to the top of the
deletion queue
-v, --verbose be more verbose, a must when testing something out
-q, --quiet only output warnings
--check report .trashinfo files without a real file
--dry-run just list what would have been done
--stat show the number, and total size of files involved
-V, --version show version and exit

bneijt commented

The lowercase -t option is only available in a newer version of autotrash, here is the help of 0.2.1 :

Usage: autotrash -d <days of age to purge>
Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DAYS, --days=DAYS  delete files older then DAYS number of days.
  -T DIRECTORY, --trash-path=DIRECTORY
                        empty the trash path in the given DIRECTORY instead of
                        using the user home directory
  -t, --trash-mounts    Process all user trash directories instead of just the
                        one in the home directory
  --max-free=M          only run if less then M megabytes of free space is
                        left.
  --delete=M            delete at least M megabytes.
  --min-free=M, --keep-free=M
                        set --delete to make sure M megabytes of space is
                        available.
  -D REGEX, --delete-first=REGEX
                        push files matching this REGEX to the top of the
                        deletion queue
  -v, --verbose         be more verbose, a must when testing something out
  -q, --quiet           only output warnings
  --check               report .trashinfo files without a real file
  --dry-run             just list what would have been done
  --stat                show the number, and total size of files involved
  -V, --version         show version and exit
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