command linefilestrash
I would like to know if there is a command I can issue in a terminal so I do not classically remove (rm) the file, but instead move it to trash (i.e. Nautilus Move to Trash behavior).
In case there is such a command, I would also be interested in knowing what it is.
Why don't you use another approach:
sudo apt-get install trash-cli, which will allow you to control your trash folder from shell.crontab -e in shell (will open your default shell editor chosen by select-editor)Add an entry like
# In your crontab
@reboot empty-trash > /dev/null
Now on every reboot your trash will be emptied. You can specify other times to empty trash. Just look at a crontab tutorial to learn how.
Of course you can use your link approach from above just as well. The problem with your approach was that you copied the link. Most likely that broke the link. Also your newly created folder /tmp/my-trash/ didn't have the proper directory structure of a trash folder specified by the free desktop standard. That can be remedied in the following way: (FIRST empty the trash manually)
mv -r ~/.local/share/Trash/ ~/.trashcopy
cp -r ~/.trashcopy /tmp/.trashcopy
ln -s /tmp/.trashcopy ~/.local/share/Trash
To make that change persistent, you have to include the following line in your user's crontab with crontab -e or just the part without @reboot in your ~/.bashrc.
@reboot rm -r ~/,local/share/Trash; cp -r ~/.trashcopy /tmp/.trashcopy; ln -s /tmp/.trashcopy ~/.local/share/Trash
Looks like it's a bug related to Dolphin with a fix on the way. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353181
Best Answer
You can use
gvfs-trashcommand from the packagegvfs-binwhich is installed by default in Ubuntu.Move file to trash:
See the content of the trash:
Empty the trash: