https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d

A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the Freedesktop trash bin. Started because an acquaintance rm -rf'd his music folder and I thought there had to be a better way.

It's pretty simple and only uses the D stdlib. Been working on it in my spare time for a bit over a week and I figure it's good enough to show people.

I started this project in Bash originally but switched to D since I thought it would be a good way to learn some more (also Bash is scary). Ended up being a great choice!

Pretty new to D so feedback welcome!

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:19:58 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:

Looks like a nice little utility. Thanks for sharing!

One thing I would have liked to see in the README, and had to go digging through the source code for, is a list of supported command-line options. You might consider copy+pasting the output of trash --help into the README, to give readers a quick overview of its capabilities.

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:34:54 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the README with the flags and a "usage" section. Doing that actually made me realize another issue with flag precedence, so thanks for helping me find that too :)

While I was in there I found another couple bugs (never ends does it?) that I quickly fixed, so I'm going to tag a new release.

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:19:58 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:

Funny seeing you here!

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:19:58 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:

Welcome!

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:19:58 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:

Cool! How does it compare to the trash command from the trash-cli package?

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 02:19:58 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:

You marked all functions inline?

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 at 06:11:04 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

To quote the trash-cli README

trash-d tries to mimic rm's semantics as much as possible. It also unifies all the different trash-* commands that trash-cli provides into a single one with flags. One of my goals with trash-d was to make a simpler and smaller alternative to trash-cli.

The only advantage that trash-cli has that I know of (aside from maturity at this point) is that it handles .Trash/ directories on separate drives/partitions while trash-d always moves to the one in the user's home. Both approaches are spec-compliant, so I opted for the simpler one.

On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 at 06:23:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:

If I did then it wasn't on purpose, I was only trying to mark the handful of helper functions as inline. If you know a solution to this, that would be greatly appreciated!