trash

Move files and folders to the trash

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Examples
• Install trash
  • Pre-built binaries
  • From source

Introduction

trash is a command-line application for moving files and folders into the trash. A safer alternative to rm.

Examples

trash README.md # move README.md to the trash
trash "*.md" # move all files ending in .md in the current direcory to the trash
trash src install.sh # move src folder and install.sh file to the trash

Install trash

Pre-built binaries

Trash works across all major platforms. You can directly install the binary from GitHub:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JakeChampion/trash/master/install.sh | sh

If you would rather not run a script, you can download the binary from the Releases page and add it to your PATH environment variable.

From source

If you have Rust and Cargo install you can install Trash from source:

cargo install trash-it