Disable Trash completely

Gary L. Greene, Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Thu Dec 28 20:49:36 GMT 2006


On Thursday 28 December 2006 15:38, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Hello,
>
> | You can call the kde trash from commandline. Write a script file with the
> | name "trash" (or whatever you like) with the following content:
> |
> | kfmclient move $@ trash:/
>
> I think
>
>    kfmclient move "$@" trash:/
>
> is more robust.  When the filenames contain blanks, $@ and "$@"
> behave differently (and the latter does the correct thing). (*)
> I mean this situation, say,
>
>    $ trash 'file name'
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
> --------
> (*) Usually, a double-quoted string is a single string;
> for example, "$USER's home directory is $HOME." is a single string.
> But, "$@" is an exception (and I think it's the only exception).
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To extend this even further take a look at the ktrash command to give you the 
ability to empty the trash and restore items from it. With some perl or bash 
scripting you could make a full trash command for cli for managing and 
trashing files that plays well with the FD.org trash can.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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