Linux delete and restore script

[techproc]

I am looking to uses two scripts, one to delete a file and one to restore it.

I am trying to store the pathway it originally came from and use that in the restore script. Any help would be great.

So far i have

Delete script

path=ls|find ~ -name $1

if test "$1" = ""
then echo "Provide a filename"
else mv /home/user1/$1 /home/user1/dustbin/
fi

Restore script

restorepath=$path

if test ! -n "$1"
then mv /home/user1/dustbin/$1 $restorepath
fi

[burschik]

Easy. Just use the complete pathname of your file, e.g.:

FILE=/my/file/to/delete
mv $File /home/whatever/dustbin/$FILE

[techproc]

Yes i know how to delete it and send to dustbin

However when in dustbin how to send back to its original location?

[burschik]

Yes i know how to delete it and send to dustbin

No, you don't.

The point is that you are using only the file name and discarding the rest of the path. As a consequence, you have no path to restore to.

[lahoridile]

well i am looking for same thing

delete and restore script,

till now what i have is that i when deleting a file we should have some sort of full path name or relative path name saved like a log

when we start restore script it looks into log file and move the to path in log file

or we can move it to place we give a name of
e.g
restore <filename> /home/user/folder

[Lakshmipathi]

Though i'm not sure about to write script . You may be interested in my project does the same.check my site from below.

[bigtomrodney]

I believe there is a Freedesktop spec for this already. It is already implemented in Gnome (or at least in Ubuntu 8.10) as I can see the option to restore. I think the Trash bin is now seperated into a files directory and an info directory to manage this.

freedesktop.org - Specifications/trash-spec