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Command line interface to FreeDesktop.org Trash.

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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 file.
restore-trash       restore a trashed file.

Usage

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:

$ restore-trash
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 before <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

Using it as ‘rm’ alias

trash-put accept all the options that GNU rm does, if you prefer (I don’t) you can set up this alias in your .bashrc:

alias rm='trash-put'

At the present the semantic of trash-put is sligthly different from the one of rm, for example, while rm requires -R for deleting directories trash-put does not. This may change in future.

Keep in mind that Bash aliases are used only in interactive shells, so using this alias should not interfere with scripts that expects to use rm.

Installation (the easy way)

Requirements:

  • Python 2.7

  • setuptools (use apt-get install python-setuptools on Debian)

Installation command:

easy_install trash-cli

Installation from sources

# grab the latest sources
wget https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/tarball/master

# unpack and install
tar xfz andreafrancia-trash-cli-xxxxxxxx.tar.gz
cd andreafrancia-trash-cli-xxxxxxxx
sudo python setup.py install

Bugs and feedback

If you discover a bug please report it to:

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues

You can reach me via email at me@andreafrancia.it . For twitter use @andreafrancia or #trashcli

Development

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

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