Ever got to the point when you did a rm delete-me.txt and then realized you made a mistake by deleting this file. Luckily we have a Recycle bin right? Well we have, but the delete-me.txt file is not in it obviously, rm completely removes the file from your computer.

trash

Better would be installing Trash on your machine. Trash moves you file to the Recycle bin like it does when you remove a file using the Finder on a Mac. So let install Trash.

$ npm install --global trash-cli

Now you can use the trash command in you terminal.

$ trash delete-me.txt

Or move a complete folder to the Recycle bin:

$ trash foldername

I’m sure you feel a lot more secure now when you are deleting files or folders from your machine using the terminal.