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How to manipulate/clean the Linux Trash folder the pythonic way?

I know how the Trash folder in Linux is constructed. So it wouldn't be that hard to manipulate it directly with some lowlevel filesystem commands.

I know the trash-cli package from Ubuntu GNU/Linux, too.

What would be a pythonic solution to clean the Trash folder on Linux without the two solutions above?

The background of my question: I know that some file-managers don't use the trash-cli package programs. How do they do this? Is there a python package or a library (gtk, qt, ...) for that?

Solution

  • The "trash folder" is not really a part of Linux itself. It is generally part of a desktop environment built on top of Linux.

    Basically it is a specification from freedesktop.org on how "trash can" implementations should work.