Cross-platform command-line app to move files and directories to the trash - A safer alternative to `rm`
Cross-platform command-line app to move files and directories to the trash - A safer alternative to
rm
Works on OS X, Linux and Windows.
$ npm install --global trash
$ trash --help
Usage
$ trash <path> [<path> ...]
Example
$ trash unicorn.png rainbow.png
Globbing support is left up to your shell, but $ trash *.png should expand to the above in most shells.
$ npm install --save trash
var trash = require('trash');
trash(['unicorn.png', 'rainbow.png'], function (err) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log('done');
});
On OS X AppleScript is used as it's the only way to support built-in features such as Put back.
On Linux trash-cli is used. Requires Python. Help wanted on a Node version.
On Windows cmdutils is used.
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
FAQs
Move files and folders to the trash
The npm package trash receives a total of 96,140 weekly downloads. As such, trash popularity was classified as popular.
We found that trash demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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