I tried opening Trash by running the command nautilus
, but it gives me an error.
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4Could you be more specific, which error did you get and which command did you use– Leon palafoxAug 2, 2013 at 18:15
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1Related: Command to move a file to Trash via Terminal– wjandreaSep 15, 2017 at 19:12
4 Answers
The trash folder should be located under:
/home/your_username/.local/share/Trash
So you should be able to access it via:
cd ~/.local/share/Trash
The folder might not exist unless you delete something from the filesystem. In this case you would run into an error (saying that the folder does not exist).
If you want to open Trash using Nautilus run the following:
nautilus trash://
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Or if you want to open the default app: "gvfs-open trash://". If Nautilus is your default, it will open the trash. Oct 3, 2017 at 11:19
For Ubuntu 18.04 and newer, use gio
. For older versions, use gvfs-ls
and gvfs-trash
.
To read the trash:
gio list trash://
gvfs-ls trash://
To send files or directories to the trash:
gio trash [FILE or DIR]
gvfs-trash [FILE or DIR]
To empty it:
gio trash --empty
gvfs-trash --empty
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1This should be the accepted answer now,
gio
works for all mount point, which isn't the case of the accepted answer, alsogio
offers a better cli interface to trash handling– bric3Dec 13, 2019 at 13:02 -
2How to restore/recover a file with
gio
? With trash-clie I can dotrash-restore
and then select a file to restore! I couldn't find an alternative withgio
. see here Apr 27, 2020 at 7:59
You can list all the files in the trash by using trash-list
. First, install it by running:
sudo apt install trash-cli
Now, you can list the files by running:
trash-list
You may be interested in these other commands too:
Command | Description |
---|---|
trash-restore |
Restore file from trash. |
trash |
Command line trash utility. |
trash-empty |
Empty trash. |
trash-list |
List trashed files. |
trash-put |
Put file in trash |
trash-rm |
Removes files matching a pattern from the trash can. |