Comments on: Delete files from command line to Trash in Ubuntu 8.04

By: Simple backup script for Ubuntu | Coding My Thoughts

Simple backup script for Ubuntu | Coding My Thoughts — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:16:27 +0000

[...] to prevent myself from another home fiasco, I’ve decided to build a simple script to backup some of my directories. There are a lot of [...]

By: Andrea Francia [Visitor]

Andrea Francia [Visitor] — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:54:00 +0000

You can also use the trash-cli software which provide a command line interface to trashcan. See http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/

By: C. James Callaway [Visitor]

C. James Callaway [Visitor] — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:18:00 +0000

Takes the trash out to the curb. Files in your trashcan older than 14 days are removed. From a crontab, maybe?

#!/bin/bash -norc
# ~/bin/curb_trash
# deletes any trash files over $KEEPDAYS
TRASHDIR=~/.local/share/Trash/files
KEEPDAYS=14
########################################################################
# Cleanup old files
find $TRASHDIR \! -mtime -${KEEPDAYS} -exec rm {} \;

By: Bakyt Niyazov [Visitor]

Bakyt Niyazov [Visitor] — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:28:00 +0000

Thank you! One interesting thing.

“del”eted items aren’t visible in the folder

If I use console I see the files. But not in D3lphin. very interesting. (tried to chmod 777, just for fun – not visible)

Thanks again!

By: mariano.iglesias [Member]

mariano.iglesias [Member] — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:16:00 +0000

@Dennis: You shouldn’t do that. It is not what is expected of POSIX and you’d be altering what is expected from the rm command used by other scripts / tools.

By: Dennis Hennen [Visitor]

Dennis Hennen [Visitor] — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:13:00 +0000

You can alias rm to something instead of using del. Since you are using Debian (Ubuntu) you could create a shell script to do this and use a diversion to direct /bin/rm to your shell script.

But most importantly, back up daily.