Delete files to trash from terminal

In linux rm command cannot be used to delete files to Trash. rm will remove files which cannot be recovered easily. So I wrote a shell script to remove files to Trash. Create a file 'delete' and add the following script to it.

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# == 0 ]; then
        echo "no input files"
        exit;
fi

for item in "$@"
do
  mv $item ~/.local/share/Trash/files
done

Save the file and give executable permission to it chmod ugo+x delete . Then copy it into a folder which is there in the system path. I copied to /usr/local/bin (mv delete /usr/local/bin) It will work with multiple files also.

Try touch file1 file2 file3 and delete file1 file2 file3 . You can see the files in the Users' trash. If the user is root it will go to System trash.

User Trash : ~/.local/share/Trash/files
System Trash : /root/.local/share/Trash/files