When it’s too hard to say goodbye… an alternative to ‘rm`.
A simple command line utility to move files/folders to a “trash” folder before deleting them.
From the command line:
trash [file/directory name(s)] # example: trash potentially-important-file.txt trash this-folder that-folder some-random-file.txt
Handles multiple files with the same name
trash ~/Documents/Groceries/shopping-list.txt trash ~/Documents/Christmas/shopping-list.txt trash ~/Documents/AutoParts/shopping-list.txt
The trash will contain:
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shopping-list.txt # originally ~/Documents/Groceries/shopping-list.txt
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shopping-list01.txt # originally ~/Documents/Christmas/shopping-list.txt
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shopping-list02.txt # originally ~/Documents/AutoParts/shopping-list.txt
You will find the files that you’ve trashed in ~/.Trash
gem install trash
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ericmathison (Eric Mathison)
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2010 Lee Jones. See LICENSE for details.