Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
Ralf Hauser wrote: Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from the cygwin shell window/command line? Hi! You can use the freeware Delete XP http://www.easytools.com/Downloads/Freebies/ which behaves like the standard (MS) del - but deletes to the recycle bin. I use it for years (it was formerly known as Delete 97) without problems. Cheers Tino -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:
Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from
the cygwin shell window/command line?
Yes. In your ~/.bashrc:
RECYCLE_BIN_PATH=location of your recycle bin
function rm() { mv $@ $RECYCLE_BIN_PATH }
The one gotcha of the above is that mv will get the options passed to
rm - not sure if there are any discrepancies. However, if you stick to
rm -r and rm -f, you should be fine.
The procedure for finding the location of the recycle bin depends on your
operating system and your setup. On my Win2k machine, I can simply use
RECYCLE_BIN_PATH=/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/`ls -t /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER|head -1`
Igor
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RE: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
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From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:06 PM
To: Ralf Hauser
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:
Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows
recycle bin from
the cygwin shell window/command line?
Yes. In your ~/.bashrc:
RECYCLE_BIN_PATH=location of your recycle bin
function rm() { mv $@ $RECYCLE_BIN_PATH }
I would speculate that another problem with this is that if you view the
recycling bin in explorer, then you will no see (or be able to restore)
the cygwin files. Also, if you empty the bin using explorer, then you
will likely leave all cygwin-moved files.
-Rolf
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Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:42:45 +0100, you wrote: Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from the cygwin shell window/command line? AFAIK, there isn't, although the int SHFileOperation(LPSHFILEOPSTRUCT lpFileOp) function in shell32.dll http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shfileoperation.asp might be useful in working out a way to do it. HTH, CHris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
Ralf,
Please keep the discussion on the list so other people have access to this
information and opportunity to share their experience. That Reply-To:
is there for a reason.
It's quite possible that something like this would happen. It makes sense
that some sort of versioning is used for the deleted files. There might
also be a difference between recycle bins on NTFS and FAT32 filesystems.
I should probably have added a disclaimer that the script below is
untested, as I, myself, don't use this kind of trick. The next place to
look would probably be MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/)... You might
even need to resort to using rundll32 and calling a function that erases
the file.
I'm sorry I can't be of more help.
Igor
P.S. I don't know Michael Steiner, sorry.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:
Igor,
Thanks for the hint.
My win2k doesn't know /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/ but /cygdrive/c/Recycled
When just moving to the latter, it gets there and can be seen via cygwin
command line ls (I just see the correct extension, but not the filename -
it comes like Dc712.html), but when opening the windows recycle bin icon,
I don't see it.
Doing that ls -t ... | head -1 yields INFO2 to me and that appears to be a
binary info file about where the files were deleted from and when.
Trying to redo your RECYCLE_BIN_PATH got me slightly into trouble because
when I copied a test file to
/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/INFO2 going back to the windows representation of the
Recycle bin, all information was wiped and it claims to only contain 0 files
while under cygwin's ls, still all the D###.* files are there.
Right-mouse-click refresh unfortunately doesn't help.
Any thoughts?
Ralf
P.S.: Don't worry I don't think anything I desperately want to recover was
in my recycle bin...
P.P.S.: Say hello to Michael Steiner he just started to work at Watson
too...
-Original Message-
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Dienstag, 14. Januar 2003 22:06
To: Ralf Hauser
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Move to Windows Recycle Bin instead of deleting
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:
Is there a way to have the files moved to the windows recycle bin from
the cygwin shell window/command line?
Yes. In your ~/.bashrc:
RECYCLE_BIN_PATH=location of your recycle bin
function rm() { mv $@ $RECYCLE_BIN_PATH }
The one gotcha of the above is that mv will get the options passed to
rm - not sure if there are any discrepancies. However, if you stick to
rm -r and rm -f, you should be fine.
The procedure for finding the location of the recycle bin depends on your
operating system and your setup. On my Win2k machine, I can simply use
RECYCLE_BIN_PATH=/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER/`ls -t
/cygdrive/c/RECYCLER|head -1`
Igor
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