Re: Feature request: rm option that supports trash (plain text)

[Steve Ward]

On Feb 7, 2008 5:35 PM, Wilfred <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/02/2008, Steve Ward <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Feb 5, 2008 12:59 PM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Wilfred wrote:
> > > > It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org
> > > > compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a
> > > > 'safer' option for newbies.
> > >
> > > This is easily done.  Simply create an alias that moves the file
> > > instead of removing it.
> > >
> > >  alias rm="mv --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash/"
> > >
> > > But please don't make this a system default since this behavior is not
> > > appreciated by many.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >  Additionally, I use the --backup option to prevent overwriting existing
> > files & folders in the trash (in order to be similar to the "Recycle
> Bin"
> > behavior).
> >
> >  # my del
> >  alias del='mv --verbose --backup=simple --suffix=$(date +".(%F_%T)")
> > --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash/'
> >
> >
> >  Steve
> >
> >
>
> address@hidden ~ $ mkdir testdel
> address@hidden ~ $ alias del='mv --verbose --backup=simple
> --suffix=$(date +".(%F_%T)") --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash/'
> address@hidden ~ $ del testdel
> mv: accessing `/home/wilfred/.Trash/': No such file or directory
>
> The trash directory on KDE is ~/.local/share/Trash and I believe it's
> the same for Gnome. What's more the trash directory is divided into
> files/ and info/ and a file cannot just be moved to the files
> directory without creating a .trashinfo file or trash viewers will not
> show the deleted file. More information at
> http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html
>
> As moving to the file to the appropriate file and creating the
> appropriate info is somewhat more involved I'd envisaged something
> like a 'rm --trash' option, since it wouldn't affect backward
> compatibility.
>
> Wilfred
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On my own Gnome desktop (2.20.1) I can confirm there exists a folder
$HOME/.Trash and it contains no special "files/" or "info/" -- just the
items that were deleted.  Also, there was no "~/.local/share/Trash".

Here are a few resources on Trash in Gnome:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-August/002923.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-kde-list/2000-December/msg00022.html

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/nautilus/nautilus-internals.html

> 7.6 Trash
> Nautilus uses the gnome-vfs trash system. It works by creating a trash
> directory for each mount point, when it can. The directory is called
> .Trash-username and stored in the top directory of the mount. For files on
> the same device as the user homedir $HOME/.Trash is used instead.
> ....
>

Hope that helps.

Steve