🌠 conceal 🌃

Introduction

conceal is a command line tool based on trash-rs which implements The FreeDesktop.org Trash specification.

You can use conceal to:

• Throw the files in the recycle bin

• List all the discarded files

• Restore files discarded under the current directory

• Delete discarded files permanently

• Clean all the discarded files permanently

Finder

conceal restore and conceal delete use skim and fzf (default) as finder. You can choose either one with the --finder option whose value is also controlled by environment variable CONCEAL_FINDER.

Value priority: --finder > CONCEAL_FINDER

Finder options

conceal predefines some options of finder command to make an ergonomic interface: --multi --ansi --reverse --cycle --bind='ctrl-a:select-all,ctrl-r:toggle-all'. You can add more options you like via environment variable FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND.

fzf options reference: man 1 fzf

Key bindings:

Installation

Cargo

You need to install finder skim or fzf before using conceal.

$ cargo install conceal

AUR

$ paru -S conceal

or binary package:

$ paru -S conceal-bin

Usage

There are two binaries: cnc and conceal.

cnc is to put files into recycle bin; conceal is to operate the recycle bin.

Tab is the multi-selection and multi-cancel key.