trash-restore(1)

trash-restore1

Restore for command line trash utility.

Usage

trash-restore

Overview

Use to restore a trashed file or directory to the original path. This command is a part of the trash-cli package that provides a command line interface trashcan utility compliant with the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification. It remembers the name, original path, deletion date, and permissions of each trashed file.

Examples

$ trash-restore
0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
4 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo
What file to restore [0..4]: 4
$ ls foo
foo

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Credits

Trash was written by Andrea Francia <[email protected]>. The original version of trash-empty was contributed by Einar Orn Olason <[email protected]>. The first version of manual pages was written by Steve Stalcup <[email protected]> and was modified by Massimo Cavalleri <[email protected]>.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10–12
  2. 13–Arch

Bugs

Please, report bugs to https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues

From trash-cli 0.24.5.26-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.