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authorKlaatu <klaatu@member.fsf.org>2015-06-17 16:17:42 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-06-17 16:17:42 +0700
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system/trashy: Added (freedesktop rubbish bin for the shell).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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+.\" trashy - an rm intermediary
+.TH "trashy" "8" "" "Klaatu" ""
+.SH "NAME"
+trashy \- trash in the shell
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+\fBtrash\fP file1 file2...
+.nf
+\fBempty\fP [option]
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+There is an unhealthy habit that arises with many a POSIX user: the
+careless and wreckless use of the dreaded \fBrm\fP command. \fBTrashy\fP
+is a helpful intermediary that intervenes when you would otherwise use
+\fBrm\fP.
+.PP
+\fBtrashy\fP attempts to be compliant with the Free Desktop specification for
+desktop trash, meaning that you can use \fBtrashy\fP in conjunction
+with a desktop environment and find your files in your desktop trash
+just as if you had dragged and dropped them there yourself. You can
+also restore the files by right-clicking and selecting `restore`, or
+whatever method your desktop defines for that process.
+.PP
+.SH "USAGE"
+.TP
+Issue this command:
+.PP
+\fBtrash\fP foo
+.PP
+and foo will be moved to the system trash.
+.PP
+At this point, you have not yet removed the file from your system, so
+if you wish to recover it, go and fetch it from your trash. There, now
+isn't that nicer than \fBrm\fP?
+.PP
+When you're really really sure that everything in
+your Trash wants to be nuked out of existance, then you can
+issue the command:
+.PP
+trask --empty
+.PP
+and your Trash will be emptied.
+.PP
+If there are spaces in your filenames, first of all stop using spaces
+in your filenames. Secondly, you must escape the space when you trash
+it:
+.PP
+\fBtrash\fP foo\\ bar
+.PP
+If you issue \fBtrash\fP without any arguments, it tells you the
+current size of your system trash.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+.TP
+.B -l, --list
+Lists the contents of your trash can.
+.TP
+.B -v, --verbose
+Makes \fBtrashy\fP verbose.
+.TP
+.B -w, --version, --which
+Returns the version of trashy you are currently running. -w because -v
+was already taken by verbose :-)
+.TP
+.B -d, --dry-run, --dryrun
+Does not actually move or remove files, just shows what will happen if
+you really did. The --empty process is verbose by default.
+.PP
+.SH "SYSTEM TRASH LOCATIONS"
+.PP
+On Linux, BSD, Ilumos, and Solaris, the system trash, by default, is
+that defined by the Free Desktop specification: ~/.local/share/Trash
+.PP
+If you do not use an environment that plays nice with the Free Desktop
+spec (ie, Mac OS) then trashy will attempt to detect and use
+your actual system trash.
+.PP
+If all else fails, a ~/.trash directory is created and used.
+.PP
+.SH "BUGS AND ISSUES"
+.PP
+Things can get a little messy when you're trashing files from an
+external drive because \fBtrash\fP currently moves the file from your external
+drive to your system harddrive. It works, but it's not as graceful as,
+say, creating a .trash folder on that external drive and hiding stuff
+there until later.
+.PP
+.SH "ALTERNATIVES"
+.PP
+\fBTrashy\fP depends on BASH. There is a similar application called
+trash-cli, which is Python-based. At this point, they do mostly the
+same thing, but obviously if you do not run BASH or ZSH or similar,
+then you might prefer a Python-based solution.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.nf
+.I rm (1)
+.I mv (1)
+.URL http://slackermedia.info/trashy
+.URL https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
+.fi
+.PP
+.SH "AUTHORS"
+.nf
+Klaatu (klaatu@member.fsf.org)
+.fi
+.PP
+.SH "BUGS"
+Email bugs reports or fixes to klaatu@member.fsf.org
+.fi