implement -i for trash-put about trash-cli HOT 8 CLOSED

From the 0.21.5.25 release trash-put honors the -i option.
Example:

$ touch foo
$ trash-put -i foo
trash-put: trash regular empty file 'foo'? y
$ 

You can add alias trash-put='trash-put -i' to your .bashrc

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For example, with the new improvement users can execute

    trash -i *

and select which files are not going to be deleted.

Thanks, Andrea!

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Thank you for your feedback. Could you explain a bit more why it would be useful? The unix utility rm does support '-i' because there is no (easy) way of recovering from errors. This is not the case of trash-put.

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I can see this being useful in a command like trash-put -i * to be sure you're not accidentally removing a file that's needed. Sure, you can easily restore a file, but what about a file that's in use, but for whatever reason, wasn't properly locked. Moving it to the trash could have very undesirable effects on the operation of the program using it.

Also, when you think about it, that's already the default behavior in most file managers, and trash-put is intended to be a command-line replacement. So, it should be able (even optionally) to mimic the behavior of the same command in the file managers.

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I would also like the interactive option for trash-put. For example, I will often want to delete the .log, .aux, and backup of a LaTeX run but to retain the input .tex and output .pdf files. trash-put my-tex-file.* gets rid of everything; it would be much better to be prompted. Thank you for your consideration.

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Patch welcome.

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Hi, I have similar problems.

Andrea wrote:

Patch welcome.

so could this issue be reopened so that people are able to know that this issue exists (and submit that patch)?

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From the 0.21.5.25 release trash-put honors the -i option.

@andreafrancia Thanks for your work. But the current -i corresponds to --interactive=always, can we get -I --interactive=once? The latter only requires 1 prompt for a batch deletion.

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