I found this when I tried to trash a directory tree created using sudo debootstrap. GNOME Files says this doesn't work. However, trash-cli takes a long time to say that it doesn't work... because it falls back to copying the entire directory tree first.
$ apt-cache show trash-cli | head -n2
Package: trash-cli
Version: 0.12.9.14-2.1
$ head -n1 /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
$ mkdir a
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=a/b bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 4.25377 s, 247 MB/s
$ chmod a-w a
$ time trash a
trash: cannot trash directory `a'
real 0m6.971s
user 0m0.244s
sys 0m1.572s
$ trash a
^C
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/trash", line 5, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/cmds.py", line 10, in put
).run(sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/trash.py", line 548, in run
self.trash_all(args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/trash.py", line 557, in trash_all
self.trash(arg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/trash.py", line 560, in trash
self.trashcan.trash(arg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/trash.py", line 324, in trash
trashed_file = trash_dir.trash(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/trash.py", line 80, in trash
move(path, trashed_file.actual_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trashcli/fs.py", line 47, in move
return shutil.move(path, str(dest))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 299, in move
copytree(src, real_dst, symlinks=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 192, in copytree
copy2(srcname, dstname)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 84, in copyfile
copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 49, in copyfileobj
buf = fsrc.read(length)
KeyboardInterrupt
I found this when I tried to trash a directory tree created using
sudo debootstrap
. GNOME Files says this doesn't work. However,trash-cli
takes a long time to say that it doesn't work... because it falls back to copying the entire directory tree first.