@nielse63/trash

Move files to trash (instead of rm -rf)

Installation

1npm install --save @nielse63/trash

Usage

CLI

1$ trash --help
2
3Usage: trash [options] <files...>
4
5Move files to trash (instead of rm -rf)
6
7Arguments:
8  files             files/directories to move to trash
9
10Options:
11  --cwd <string>    current working directory
12  --trash <string>  path to trash folder
13  -V, --version     output the version number
14  -h, --help        display help for command
15
16Example:
17  trash --cwd custom/working/directory folder1 nested/path/to/file

API

1import trash from '@nielse63/trash';
2
3const results = await trash(['file.md', 'directory'], {
4  cwd: process.cwd(),
5  trash: path.join(os.homedir(), '.Trash'),
6});
7
8// results:
9// [
10//   {
11//     "src": "/path/to/file.md",
12//     "dest": "/Users/username/.Trash/file_1691311838573_dUGBD6dd.md"
13//   },
14//   {
15//     "src": "/path/to/directory",
16//     "dest": "/Users/username/.Trash/directory_1691311838573_nsRcsJWf"
17//   }
18// ]