DELSAFE

URL: http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~nx0yew/delsafe/

Use a different approach to the same problem. While 'trash' provide a extra command that put files in the trash, 'delsafe' modifies the semantics of the existing commands.

Apparently 'delsafe' overrides the library calls of unlink, unlinkat, rename, open and fopen modifying the semantics of these functions. A program that was designed to works with the original functions may not work well with the overridden functions.

The example is the KDE filemanager which as two command:

delete file
trash file

Using 'delsafe' these commands becomes:

delete file --> trash file in the delsafe trash
trash file --> trash file in the KDE trash

I prefer the 'trash' approach because don't change the semantics of the existing program letting the user chose when putting files in the trash and when removing them.

Personally I don't like the model where each deletion should recorded somewhere. 'trash' is intended to be used only in interactive shells, if a program decides to delete, or trunk a file the information loss risk IMHO should be managed in the context of this program.

trash.sh

URL: http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/unix/src/privat2/trashcan-3.2.tar.gz/

This program seems not compliant with the FreeDesktopTrashSpecification.
It compresses trashed file instead of just moving it.
Like trash-cli can trash and restore directories.
Seems that the development was ended in 2003.

Trashcan for Rox-Filer

URL: http://usuarios.lycos.es/proyectarr/

Features:

Has a graphical user interface.
Does not support the FreeDesktopTrashSpecification.
Implemented in bash using zenity.

trash by skymt

URL: http://mysite.verizon.net/skymt/trash/ Language: Python

I reviewed the version 0.2

Is the only other CLI implementation of FreeDesktopTrashSpecification I ever found till now (2008-06-29)

Features:

Operation supported:

trash files and directories: yes
listing trashed files: no
restoring trashed files: no
emptying the trashcan: no

Support of volumes trashcans: no
Can be used as alias='rm': no

Notes:

(Better than trash-cli) Seems much simpler of trash-cli.\
(Better than trash-cli) Prints sensible output if the trashcan directories permission are wrong.
Not object oriented.

cn by Richard Neill

URL: http://www.richardneill.org/source.php#cn

License: GPLv3

Reviewed on: 2008-06-29

Features:

Seems it is conform to the FreeDesktopTrashSpecification
Works also with the older KDE and GNOME TrashCan implementation
Can be used as alias='rm': no
(Better than trash-cli) It has a manpage.

Trash Specification:

Operation supported:

trash files and directories: yes
listing trashed files: yes
restoring trashed files: yes
emptying trashcan: yes

Support of volumes trashcans: no
Can be used as alias='rm': no

FreeDesktop.org specification deviations:

I'm not sure that it creates the trashinfo file in an atomic way.

File Rename Utils

URL: http://filerenameutils.sourceforge.net/

License: ?

Reviewed on: 2008-06-30

Features:

Conform to FreeDesktopTrashSpecification : yes
Operation supported:

trash files and directories: yes
listing trashed files: yes
restoring trashed files: yes
emptying trashcan: yes

Support of volumes trashcans: ?
Can be used as alias='rm': no

Gnome Trashcan

As of Nautilus 2.22, GNOME support the XDG Trash specification through GIO and the GVFS-Trash backend. You can find the code for this backend here: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gvfs/trunk/daemon/ and GIO is in GLib: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/gio/

Safe RM

This project does not use the TrashCan metaphore. The program alert you whenewer you attempt to delete files known to be important. URL: http://www.safe-rm.org.nz/

rmtrash

website: http://www.nightproductions.net/cli.htm trashcan utility for Mac OS X. I think it support only trashing files (not trash listing, or restoring).

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