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a trash function for bash

Terminal - a trash function for bash
trash <file>
2009-11-25 16:45:15
User: thebillywayne
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a trash function for bash

Every rm'ed a file you needed? Of course you haven't. But I have. I got sick of it so I created a bash function. Here it is. It'll put trashed files into a $HOME/.Trash/"date" folder according to the date. I have rm aliased to it as well in my bashrc so that I still use the rm command. It'll choke if you attempt to trash a directory if that directory name is already in the Trash. This rarely happens in my case but it's easy enough to add another test and to mv the old dir if necessary.

function trash(){

if [ -z "$*" ] ; then

echo "Usage: trash filename"

else

DATE=$( date +%F )

[ -d "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" ] || mkdir -p ${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}

for FILE in $@ ; do

mv "${FILE}" "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}"

echo "${FILE} trashed!"

done

fi

}

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wouldn't ever use it personally, but I can see how it would be helpful to certain other folks who require the utility this provides.

Comment by linuxrawkstar 182 weeks and 2 days ago

can this be merged with nautilus' trash folder?

Comment by alperyilmaz 182 weeks and 2 days ago

@alperyilmaz i don't know. not sure if Nautilus adds metadata when you use Nautilus to trash something. I don't use a DE or X ( I ssh into a server to perform chemistry research ) so there's no way for me to test that.

Comment by thebillywayne 182 weeks and 2 days ago

I often use this instead of rm:

mv $DELME /tmp

If you have enough disk, it will be deleted in due time.

Comment by susannakaukinen 182 weeks and 2 days ago

There are many analogs of this command, like a app-misc/perltrash in Gentoo or trash-cli in Debian

Comment by kapsh 182 weeks and 1 day ago

You should quote your variables in case you want to trash a file that has spaces in its name. Also, the "usage" message could be a little more informative.

Comment by dennisw 181 weeks and 2 days ago

@dennisw: for some reason commandlinefu chopping off when it orginially read "Usage: trash ". also, I don't think $@ can be put in quotations because then $@ will be seen as only one argument. best practice is simply not to use whitespace in filenames; it leads to too much drama.

Comment by thebillywayne 181 weeks and 2 days ago

dangit! it did it again! putting stuff in brackets must be seen as html or something, because it keeps on getting erased.

Comment by thebillywayne 181 weeks and 2 days ago

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