Hi,

Is there a way of sending a file to Trash from command line?

I want to have KDE's "Restore" capability when deleting a file from command line.

thanks,
yuval.

Unfortunately it is a little more complicated than just moving the file. The file needs to be moved to ~/.local/share/Trash/files while ensuring no file of the same name already exists, and a ~/.local/share/Trash/info/<new name>.info file needs to be created. If the info file does not exist, then the file will not be shown.

Example info file:

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[Trash Info]
Path=/home/trunk/Zenwalk.png
DeletionDate=2009-04-11T23:15:42

You can do this with the following command:

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kioclient move 'file' trash:/


where 'file' is the file you want to trash

See also ktrash4 for restoring or emptying the trash from command line.

Cheers,
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