rubbish

A command line tool written in Rust to interface with the OS's trash-can.

Supported platforms:

• Linux/*BSD: The FreeDesktop.org Trash specification

Warning: rubbish is currently beta level and no guarantees are made about its integrity of managing your files. Additionally, it currently does not properly handle trashing files if the files are on a different filesystem/partition than the home folder.

The following subcommands are provided:

Subcommand	Description
empty	Empty the trash
erase	Erase the specified files (i.e. rm)
list	Recursively list previously trashed files from a specified directory
prune	Delete files from the trash that match a specified regex
put	Trash the specified files
restore	Restore a previously trashed file to its original location

Installation

Package managers

Prebuilt binaries:

Prebuilt binaries are provided in the releases tab.

From source:

cargo install --git https://github.com/cjbassi/rubbish

Automatically emptying the trash

Various timers can be setup to automatically empty the trash of files that are older than a specified age. This helps reduce the amount of files in the trash-can and the amount of disk space it uses.

systemd

For systemd based Linux distros, a systemd timer file is located here along with the service file here.

To setup the systemd timer:

1. Copy both files to ~/.config/systemd/user/
2. Customize how often the timer runs (defaults to daily) and how old the files need to be to be deleted (defaults to 30 days)
3. Run systemctl --user daemon-reload
4. Run systemctl --user enable --now trash-empty.timer

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