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Old 10-27-2010
Tools Take a files' path with the command 'file' ?
When I type 'man file' I can read an option named --location but when I give
file --location <filename> doesn't output me the location of the file. Do I do it wrong?Smilie
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Old 10-27-2010
Seems strange. The primary purpose of file is to put out the interpretation of the file magic as a file type. I thought maybe location just means parrot the file argument as given, even if there is just one file, like grep, but file already does that.

Which O/S is this man file on?
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Old 10-27-2010
Ubuntu Linux.
I am not really interested in 'file' command. I just need a way to get a file's path becauz I am building a console application that moves the files to the Trash and does not remove them permanently as 'rm' does, but the Trash needs the file's path to restore it if needed. This path is saved at a log file, and so I have to write in this log file the "deleted" file's path.
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Old 10-27-2010
I am not sure where umbutu saves the Trash'd file original path. Apparently, nobody does! There should be a trash history file somewhere identifying files in trash named or prefixed by ascending unique number but maybe with any extension intact.

file original location +ubuntu trash - Google Search
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Old 10-27-2010
My problem is NOT the trash location etc. I've found them. My single problem is to take a file's locationSmilie
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Old 10-27-2010
Yes, the original location before being trashed is an unknown. I can find a no-sym-links path with realpath(), but I do not thank that is what you are up to. You are talking about a file manager with a trash can but not enough foresight to save where they were trashed from. That data has gone to what we used to call 'the bit bucket', where the bits go when you shift them out, not end around. The community is not happy, and you can go vote to have it fixed. It's slow, like the Obama Change and the Recovery.
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Old 10-27-2010
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Oh, come on, little talking, much work! :P

Deleted to trash files go to:
$HOME/.local/share/Trash/files

Their info files (which includes deletion time and the path from which had been deleted) go to:
$HOME/.local/share/Trash/info

What I need is simple, I need a command that outputs the path of a specified file so to echo it at the deleted file's info file so the Trash can restore it if needed, is it so hard, really? :PSmilie
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