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.
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-empy <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
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.
Requirements:
- Python 2.7
- setuptools (use apt-get install python-setuptools on Debian)
Installation command:
easy_install trash-cli
# 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
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
Environment setup:
virtualenv env --no-site-packages source env/bin/activate pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Running tests:
nosetests unit_tests # unit tests nosetests integration_tests # integration tests nosetests # run all tests
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