NAME File::Trash::FreeDesktop - Trash files VERSION version 0.01 SYNOPSIS use File::Trash::FreeDesktop; my $trash = File::Trash::FreeDesktop->new; DESCRIPTION This module lets you trash/erase/restore files, also list the contents of trash directories. This module follows the freedesktop.org trash specification [1], with some notes/caveats: * For home trash, $HOME/.local/share/Trash is used instead of $HOME/.Trash This is what KDE and GNOME use these days. * Symlinks are currently not checked The spec requires implementation to check whether trash directory is a symlink, and refuse to use it in that case. This module currently does not do said checking. * Currently cross-device copying is not implemented/done * Currently meant to be used by normal users, not administrators This means, among others, this module only creates "$topdir/.Trash-$uid" instead of "$topdir/.Trash". And there are less paranoid checks being done. METHODS $trash = File::Trash::FreeDesktop->new(%opts) Constructor. Currently there are no known options. $trash->list_trashes() => LIST List user's existing trash directories on the system. Return a list of trash directories. Sample output: ("/home/steven/.local/share/Trash", "/tmp/.Trash-1000") $trash->list_contents([$trash_dir]) => LIST List contents of trash director(y|ies). If $trash_dir is not specified, list contents from all existing trash directories. Die if $trash_dir does not exist or inaccessible or corrupt. Return a list of records like the sample below: ({entry=>"file1", path=>"/home/steven/file1", deletion_date=>1342061508}, {entry=>"file1.2", path=>"/home/steven/sub/file1", deletion_date=>1342061580}, {entry=>"dir1", path=>"/tmp/dir1", deletion_date=>1342061510}) $trash->trash($file) Trash a file (move it into trash dir). Will attempt to create "$home/.local/share/Trash" (or "$topdir/.Trash-$uid" if file does not reside in the same filesystem/device as user's home). Will die if attempt fails. Will also die if moving file to trash (currently using rename()) fails. $trash->recover($file[, $trash_dir]) Recover a file from trash. Unless $trash_dir is specified, will search in all existing user's trash dirs. Will die on errors (e.g. file is not found in trash). $trash->erase($file[, $trash_dir]) => LIST Erase (unlink()) a file in trash. Unless $trash_dir is specified, will empty all existing user's trash dirs. Will ignore if file does not exist in trash. Will die on errors. Return list of files erased. $trash->empty([$trash_dir]) => LIST Empty trash. Unless $trash_dir is specified, will empty all existing user's trash dirs. Will die on errors. Return list of files erased. SEE ALSO [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec Related modules on CPAN: * Trash::Park Different trash structure (a single CSV file per trash to hold a list of deleted files, files stored using original path structure, e.g. "home/dir/file"). Does not create per-filesystem trash. * File::Trash Different trash structure (does not keep info file, files stored using original path structure, e.g. "home/dir/file"). Does not create per-filesystem trash. * File::Remove File::Remove includes the trash() function which supports Win32, but no undeletion function is provided at the time of this writing. AUTHOR Steven Haryanto COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Steven Haryanto. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.