bin - Console trash bin management
bin is a POSIX shell implementation of the Freedesktop.org trashcan
specification. It lets you run bin <file> to move a file to the trash bin
instead of just rm <file>, which permanently deletes it immediately. Later,
the file can be recovered with bin -u <file> or permanently erased with
bin -e <file>. More details are in the Usage section. This is based off of
bashtrash, but with a few more features
and a little bit cleaned up and tweaked to be fully POSIX-compliant, rather
than relying on bashisms.
Requirements
bin requires the following utilities in addition to the standard tools
(mv, rm, etc.): awk, basename, date, df, du, dirname, find,
mktemp, perl (for URL encoding filenames), readlink, sed, stty,
tput.
Optionally, if you install my other tools ask and arg, you'll get slightly
nicer behavior, although bin should work perfectly fine without them.
(ask)[https://bitbucket.org/spilt/ask] will get you slightly cleaner
confirmation prompts, and (arg)[https://bitbucket.org/spilt/arg] will get more
robust command line flag parsing (without arg, you must use bin -f -v -E
instead of bin -fvE).
Usage
Basic usage: bin [OPTIONS]... FILES...
Options:
-h,--helpShow the program usage and exit-V,--versionShow program's version number and exit-v,--verboseExplain what is being done-i,--interactivePrompt before moving every file-f,--forceIgnore non-existent files, never prompt-r,-R,--recursiveIgnored (for compatability withrm)-u,--untrashRestore file(s) from the trash-e,--emptyChoose files to empty from the trash-E,--empty-allEmpty all the files in the trash folder(s) (default: ~)-l,--listList files in trash folder(s) (default: ~)--Any arguments after--will be treated as filenames
See man bin for full documentation.
License
Copyright (c) 2020, Bruce Hill bruce@bruce-hill.com
Copyright (c) 2009-2011, Robert Rothenberg robrwo@gmail.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.