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restore-trash

RESTORE-TRASH(1)					      General Commands Manual						  RESTORE-TRASH(1)

NAME

       restore-trash - Restore for Command line trash utility.

SYNOPSIS

       restore-trash

DESCRIPTION

       Use  for  restore  a  trashed file or directory, in the original path.  This command is a part of trash-cli package that provides a command
       line interface trashcan utility compliant with the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification.	It remembers the  name,  original  path,  deletion
       date, and permissions of each trashed file.

EXAMPLES

       $ restore-trash
       0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
       1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
       2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
       3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
       4 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo
       What file to restore [0..4]: 4
       $ ls foo
       foo

BUGS

       Report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/issues

AUTHORS

       Trash  was  written by Andrea Francia <andreafrancia@users.sourceforge.net> and Einar Orn Olason <eoo@hi.is>.  This manual page was written
       by Steve Stalcup <vorian@ubuntu.com>.  Changes made by Massimo Cavalleri <submax@tiscalinet.it>.

SEE ALSO

       trash-put(1), trash-list(1), trash-empty(1), and the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification at http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

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