NAME

File::Trash::Undoable - Trash files (with undo support)

VERSION

version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

# use the trash-u script

DESCRIPTION

This module provides routines to trash files, with undo/redo support. Originally written to demonstrate/test Perinci::Sub::Gen::Undoable.

SEE ALSO

  • gvfs-trash

    A command-line utility, part of the GNOME project.

  • trash-cli, https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli

    A Python-based command-line application. Also follows freedesktop.org trash specification.

  • rmv, http://code.google.com/p/rmv/

    A bash script. Features undo ("rollback"). At the time of this writing, does not support per-filesystem trash (everything goes into home trash).

FUNCTIONS

empty_trash() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Empty trash.

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

list_trash_contents() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

List contents of trash directory.

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

trash(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Trash a file.

Fixed state: path does not exist.

Fixable state: path exists.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • path* => str

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

trash_files(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Trash files (with undo support).

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • files* => array

    Files/dirs to delete.

    Files must exist.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

untrash(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Untrash a file.

Fixed state: path exists (and if mtime is specified, with same mtime).

Fixable state: Path does not exist (and exists in trash, and if mtime is specified, has the exact same mtime).

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • mtime* => int

  • path* => str

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

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.