Unlike other trash cli tools, trash101:
- Works properly with
sudo- Files still get moved to your normal user trash location
- You won't get an additional GUI password prompt
- Respects sudoers
- Isn't slowed down by applescript
- Provides a
putbackcommand that restores trashed files to their original locations- (Doesn't enable the Put Back menu item in Finder, but no tools can do that without causing the issues above)
The trash path is currently mac-specific; PRs accepted for other platforms.
Via pipx:
brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath
pipx install trash101
trash ~/some/file.ext
putback ~/.Trash/file.ext
Does the putback command work with files that were trashed via Finder?
It doesn't. The only way to do that is via applescript, which is slow and doesn't work well with sudo. I experimented with implementing it by mimicking what Finder does internally (getting the original location from the trash's .DS_Store file), but that is problematic as well, because Finder takes a while before flushing changes to that file, making it impossible to get the data for recently trashed files.
For the same reason, attempting to write put-back data to the .DS_Store file
(in the trash command) would be problematic.