Trash-cli - A Trashcan Tool to Manage "Trash" from Linux Command Line | Linux Today

Trash-cli – A Trashcan Tool to Manage “Trash” from Linux Command Line

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Aaron Kili
May 17, 2017

Tecmint: Trash-cli is a command line interface that trashes files and records the original absolute path, deletion date, and associated permissions. It uses the same trashcan used by popular Linux desktop environments such as KDE, GNOME, and XFCE which can be invoked from the command line (and via scripts).

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Aaron Kili

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