Restore trash item to original location - Linux [closed]

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I'm wondering if it is possible to restore a file that is in the trash (~/.Trash) to its original location.

I understand there is a restore command but I don't understand its arguments or how to correctly use it.

Is this a fairly simple thing to do?

Cheers

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If your desktop environment followed the XDG Trash Can Specification when trashing the file, then restore-trash from trash-cli would do the trick.

What desktop do you use?

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.Trash is just a (hidden) directory. All you need to do is move it out:

mv ~/.Trash/foo ~/

or using the file browser of your desktop environment, open the trash and drag it out.

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As far as I know, in the trash folder (~/.local/share/Trash/), there is a folder with the files (files/) and a folder with the file information (info/). Each file has an associated .trashinfo file in which the original path and time of deletion are stored. You can use that to restore the file to its original location.