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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving files to 'trash' Post 302277756 by methyl on Saturday 17th of January 2009 07:57:56 PM
Old 01-17-2009
Hi Jodi

Methinks you need to read and understand a book on Linux before you wreck your system.

A reminder about filenames:
Long after the creation of Unix came MSDOS from M$.
In MSDOS (which became M$ Windows) the suffix of the filename conveyed the file type. This does not apply to Unix and Linux though there are
informal conventions. The fullstop character is just another character in the filename.

Assuming your script /usr/bin/del contains the one line
mv $file /home/trash
This is not enough.
Unless there is a value in the variable $file , the command will fail.

Unfortunately because you appear to have no basic training I cannot continue to advise.
Last edited by methyl; 01-17-2009 at 08:58 PM.. Reason: typo
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

trash-put

TRASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  TRASH(1)

NAME

       trash - Command line trash utility.

SYNOPSIS

       trash [arguments] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Trash-cli  package 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.

ARGUMENTS

       Names of files or directory to move in the trashcan.

EXAMPLES

       $ cd /home/andrea/
       $ touch foo bar
       $ trash foo bar

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-list(1), trash-restore(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.

																	  TRASH(1)
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