MacOS – View trash sorted by date deleted

Update for OSX 10.9 Mavericks:

It appears that you can now sort by Date Added in OSX Mavericks. In Trash right click one of the columns and click to check the Date Added column. The click on the column header until the list of files is sorted by Date Added descending.

For OS X 10.7 Lion:

Go to the AppleScript Editor, paste in the following script and save it in /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
    repeat with this_item in added_items
        do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_item & " -exec touch {} \\;"
    end repeat
end adding folder items to

Then…

1. Right-click on any folder in Finder, go to Services and click Folder Actions Setup.

2. Cancel the dialog asking which script to attach.

3. Click the checkbox to Enable Folder Actions

4. Click the plus sign to choose the Trash.

   Press ⌘ cmd + ⇧ shift + G and type in ~/.Trash, click Go or press ↩ return, and then click Open.

5. On the right side, click the plus sign to choose the AppleScript that you saved earlier.

Thanks to Graham for the link which pointed me in the right direction.

Yes I do, is there a command to move them to another folder? In the short term I don't mind where they are, as long as they're not sitting in the trash waiting to get deleted!

Answering down here to have enough room.

1. Create a new folder to move all these files from the Trash into. It can be anything, for this example I'll create a folder called "undeleted" on the Desktop.
2. Open up a Terminal window, and navigate to the Trash: cd ~/.Trash.
3. Confirm that the stuff you want is there: ls -a.
4. Move the mp3s:

   mv *.mp3 ~/Desktop/undeleted

   . If you create a different folder somewhere else, the easiest way to get its path is to drag it into the Terminal window. Type in

   mv *.mp3 

   including the trailing space, then drag the folder you want the files to go into into the window - it'll automatically fill in the correct path. The * wildcard will match any .mp3 it finds.
5. If you have any AAC encoded songs, repeat the above, but change the extension to .m4a:

   mv *.m4a ~/Desktop/undeleted