trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin

• trash-d

  11 122 3.4 D

  A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin. Written in D

The GitHub releases page has pre-built static binaries for x86 Linux, as well as DEB and RPM packages. https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d/releases/tag/15

• trash-cli

  40 3,409 9.2 Python

  Command line interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan.

So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?

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• shell-safe-rm

  6 400 0.0 Shell

  😎 Safe-rm: A drop-in and much safer replacement of bash rm with nearly full functionalities and options of the rm command! Safe-rm will act exactly the same as the original rm command.

So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?

• rm-trash

  2 41 10.0 Shell

  A "rm-trash" is meant to be used in place of rm system command in linux . This script will safely delete your files and put them in the trash for later retrieval.

So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?

• rmtrash

  7 303 3.7 Shell

  Put files (and directories) in trash using the `trash-put` command in a way that is, otherwise as `trash-put` itself, compatible to GNUs `rm` and `rmdir`

So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?

• crap

  1 32 10.0 Nim

  🗑️ `rm` files without fear (by icyphox)

So what's really is the difference/advantage compared to at least five other similar utilities already existing (trash-cli, shell-safe-rm, rm-trash, rmtrash, crap)? Can't really be that it uses D as the programming language. As a matter of fact why're there five utilities doing the same thing in the first place?

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