Bug 20198

Summary:	xdg-utils should contain a trash bin tool
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Tassilo Horn <tsdh>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Tassilo Horn 2009-02-18 12:04:57 UTC

[Sorry for filing this in the wrong product, but there seems to be no xdg-utils component.]

Most of the time I'm doing my file management in the shell, where `rm' means dead and gone forever.  I'd love to see a command line tool facilitating the freedesktop.org trash bin.  I would imagine it to work like this:

# Move baz.txt to the trash bin
$ xdg-trash /foo/bar/baz.txt

# Move the whole bar directory to the trash bin
$ xdg-trash /baz/bar/

# List the trash bin's contents (lists the original locations)
$ xdg-trash --list
[1] /foo/bar/baz.txt
[2] /baz/bar/

# Restore the bar directory
$ xdg-trash --restore 2

# Empty the trash bin
$ xdg-trash --empty

Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2010-02-16 16:39:52 UTC

The product for xdg-utils is Portland, moving there.

Comment 2 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-07-05 07:25:50 UTC

That's interesting, I will try to work on it in the next days.

Comment 3 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-07-06 08:04:11 UTC

At the moment it exists trash-cli for this purpose. You can find it here: http://www.andreafrancia.it/trash/

Comment 4 Pablo Castellano (pablog) 2010-07-06 08:06:34 UTC

fd.o spec: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec

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