yatrash

Safely move files into a trash can instead of rm.

OS Independent, as long as your OS supports Python's pathlib and shutil.

Now living on Github

Detailed usage

$ trash --help
usage: __main__.py [-h] [--trash-dir TRASH_DIR]
                   [trash_files [trash_files ...]]

...
see the real --help for more

Why do we need another trash utility?

This is mostly for self-educational purposes.

If you actually want a trash utility, see trash-cli which implements the xdg trash specification, so it will play nicely with your Desktop's trash and other tools. It also features more utilities, such as recover.

Origin

• CodeReview
• Github Gist
• Github Repository (current home)