trash for macOS

This is a simple utility to send files to macOS's Trash from the command line.

This works on macOS Sonoma 14.5 (June 2024).

Download and install binary release

curl -fSLO https://github.com/proprietary/macos-trash/releases/download/v1.0.0/trash
sudo install ./trash /usr/local/bin

Usage

cd /tmp
echo "hello world" > hello-world.txt
trash hello-world.txt

This works on directories or regular files. I suggest using trash anywhere you would have used rm(1).

Currently, this command line tool cannot restore files. You will have to open Trash in Finder and restore it from the GUI.

Building manually

Build

xcode-select --install
git clone https://github.com/proprietary/macos-trash
cd macos-trash
make
make test
sudo make install

Verify installation

trash --version

License

Apache-2.0