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Cross-platform command-line app for moving files and directories to the trash - A safer alternative to `rm`
Cross-platform command-line app for moving files and directories to the trash
A safer alternative torm
Works on OS X, Linux and Windows.
In contrast to rm
which is dangerous and permanently delete files, this only moves them to the trash, which is much safer and reversible. You should not alias rm
to trash
however as that would break most scripts relying on rm
behaviour. Rather use trash
from the CLI and in your own scripts. I would also recommend reading my guide on safeguarding rm
.
$ npm install --global trash
$ trash --help
Usage
trash [--force] <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.
The --force
option makes it always succeed even on errors by exiting with code 1
:
$ trash --force build && BUILDSTUFF
This can be useful when used in platform agnostic scripts like npm
package.json scripts, as eg. trash build; BUILDSTUFF
doesn't work on Windows.
$ npm install --save trash
var trash = require('trash');
trash(['unicorn.png', 'rainbow.png'], function (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 xdg-trash is used.
On Windows cmdutils is used.
Add alias t=trash
to your .zshrc
/.bashrc
to reduce typing: $ t unicorn.png
.
mv
Not really. The mv
command isn't cross-platform and moving to trash is not just about moving the file to a "trash" directory. On all OSes you'll run into file conflicts. The user won't easily be able to restore the file. It won't work on an external drive. The trash directory location varies between Windows versions. For Linux there's a whole spec you need to follow. On OS X you'll loose the Put back feature.
See empty-trash
for emptying the trash.
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