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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving files to 'trash' Post 302278250 by Rhije on Monday 19th of January 2009 09:07:23 PM
Old 01-19-2009
I looked at the code, and then cried.. and then I went and rewrote it. It is not perfect, but it does work. Tested it.

Code:
function restfile() {
# First arg is the file to restore.
# Test if empty, give error if it is, give error.
if [ -z $1 ]; then
    echo "Syntax is: restorefile filename destination";
else
# If they did specify a file, test for it in the trash.
    if [ ! -f /home/username/trashbin/$1 ]; then
#does not exist
        echo "The file does not exist in the trashbin.";
    else
#does exist.
        if [ ! -z $2 ]; then
#did they specify a place to move it to?
#If so, move it there
            echo "Restoring $1 to $2";
            mv /home/username/trashbin/$1 $2
        else
# If not, then move it to the current directory.
            echo "Restoring $1 to home directory.";
            mv /home/username/trashbin/$1 .
        fi
    fi
fi
}

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

trash-list

trash-list(1)						      General Commands Manual						     trash-list(1)

NAME

       trash-list - List trashed files.

SYNOPSIS

       trash-list [OPTIONS]... [PATH]...

DESCRIPTION

       List all the contents of the trashcan.

EXAMPLES

       List all trashed files or grep output:
       $ trash-list
       2008-06-23 21:57:26 /home/andrea/src/bluetrash/pippo
       2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar
       2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar
       2008-06-23 21:53:13 /media/disk/adsfljasldj
       $ trash-list | grep foo
       2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar
       2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar

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-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.

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