AUTOTRASH(1)						      General Commands Manual						      AUTOTRASH(1)

NAME

       autotrash -- program to automatically purge old files from the FreeDesktop.org trash

SYNOPSIS

       autotrash [-d purge_n_days_old]

       autotrash [--delete number_of_megabytes_to_purge]

       autotrash [--keep-free number_of_megabytes_to_free]

DESCRIPTION

       autotrash  is  a  program that looks in a FreeDesktop.org Trash folder for information on it's contents and then purges a part of the trash
       depending on the options.

       The most common option is -d, which will purge files that have been in the trash for more then a given number of days.

       The option --delete will remove at least the given number of megabytes from the trash, removing the oldest trash first.

       Using --keep-free will make sure at least the given number of megabytes of free space is available, by automatically  setting  --delete	to
       the right value. For example, to keep at least a 1GB of free space, removing files from the trash if needed, use autotrash --keep-free 1024
       .

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

       -h --help Show a summary of options.

       -d DAYS --days DAYS
		 Purge files older than DAYS number of days.

       -T PATH --trash-path PATH
		 Use the given path as the location of the Trash directory, instead of the default: ~/.local/share/Trash .

       --max-free M
		 Only purge files if there is less than M megabytes of free space left at the trash location. As an example, if you  set  this	to
		 1024, then autotrash will only start to work if there is less than 1GB of free space in the trash. Till that time, autotrash will
		 just exit normally without scanning the Trash directory. If unsure, try running autotrash with --dry-run and --verbose to see the
		 effect.

       --delete M
		 Purge at least M megabytes, deleting oldest trash addition first. It uses trash entries, NOT individual files. This means that if
		 your oldest trashed item is a 1GB directory, and you request at least 10MB to be removed (M=10), autotrash will  remove  1GB.	If
		 unsure, try running autotrash with both --dry-run and --stat to see the effect.

       --min-free M --keep-free M
		 Make  sure there is a minimum of M megabytes of free space. If there is less free space, set --delete to the difference between M
		 and the amount of free space. If unsure, try running autotrash with --dry-run and --verbose to see the effect.

       -D REGEX --delete-first REGEX
		 Purge any file which matches REGEX first, regardless of it's time-stamp. REGEX must be a valid regular expression. If this option
		 is  used  multiple times, the files matching the first regular expression are deleted first, then the second etc. Example, delete
		 any *.avi files first, then by age: --delete-first '.*.avi'

       -v --verbose
		 Output information on what is happening and why.

       -q --quiet
		 Only output warnings.

       --check	 Report .trashinfo files that point to a non-existing file. This will only happen with a broken Trashcan. It is  left  up  to  the
		 user  to  actually do something with this information. These files will be removed as soon as the mentioned file would be removed
		 by autotrash.

       --dry-run Only list what would be done, but actually do nothing.

       --stat	 Show the number, and total size of files involved.

       -V --version
		 Show the version of program.

EXAMPLES

       Examples of program use.

       autotrash -d 30
		 Purge any file that has been in the trash for more then 30 days.

       autotrash --max-free 1024 -d 30
		 Only purge files from the trash if there is less than 1GB of space left on the trash filesystem. If so, only trash files that are
		 older than 30 days.

       autotrash --min-free 2048
		 Purge files from trash, oldest first, till there is at least 2GB of space on the trash filesystem. There is no restriction on how
		 old trashed files are.

       autotrash --min-free 2048 -D '.*.bak' -D '.*.avi'
		 Purge files from trash till there is at least 2GB of space on the trash filesystem. If we need to  remove  files,  make  sure	we
		 remove  *.bak	files  first,  then  all  *.avi  files and after that the oldest to the newest. There is no restriction on how old
		 trashed files can get. Please note that '.*.bak' and '.*.avi' are regular expressions and not glob patterns.  Given	that  they
		 are regular expressions, using -D '.*.(png|gif|jpg|jpeg)' will match images with any of the given extensions.

       autotrash --max-free 4000 --min-free 2048 -d 30
		 Start	reading  the  trash  if there is less than 4000MB of free space, then start keeping an eye on. At that point, remove files
		 older than 30 days and if there is less than 2GB of free space after that remove even newer files.

       @hourly /usr/bin/autotrash --max-free 4000 --min-free 2048 -d 30
		 Experienced users should consider adding autotrash as a crontab entry, using crontab -e and adding the line above.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by A. Bram Neijt bram@neijt.nl for the Debian system (and may be used by others).  Permission  is  granted	to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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