How to open "Trash" through terminal?

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I tried opening Trash by running the command nautilus, but it gives me an error.

Could you be more specific, which error did you get and which command did you use — Leon palafox, Aug 02 '13 at 18:15
Related: [Command to move a file to Trash via Terminal](https://askubuntu.com/q/213533/301745) — wjandrea, Sep 15 '17 at 19:12

score 87 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 02 '13 at 19:08

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The trash folder should be located under:

/home/your_username/.local/share/Trash

So you should be able to access it via:

cd ~/.local/share/Trash

The folder might not exist unless you delete something from the filesystem. In this case you would run into an error (saying that the folder does not exist).

edited Aug 02 '13 at 19:08

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answered Aug 02 '13 at 18:21

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score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 03 '17 at 10:38

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If you want to open Trash using Nautilus run the following:

nautilus trash://

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answered Aug 04 '13 at 02:18

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Or if you want to open the default app: "gvfs-open trash://". If Nautilus is your default, it will open the trash. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 03 '17 at 11:19

wjandrea · Answer 3 · 2018-09-04T03:39:02.597

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For Ubuntu 18.04 and newer, use gio. For older versions, use gvfs-ls and gvfs-trash.

To read the trash:

gio list trash://
gvfs-ls trash://

To send files or directories to the trash:

gio trash [FILE or DIR]
gvfs-trash [FILE or DIR]

To empty it:

gio trash --empty
gvfs-trash --empty

edited Sep 04 '18 at 03:39

answered May 22 '17 at 17:53

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This should be the accepted answer now, `gio` works for all mount point, which isn't the case of the accepted answer, also `gio` offers a better cli interface to _trash_ handling – bric3 Dec 13 '19 at 13:02
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How to restore/recover a file with `gio`? With trash-clie I can do `trash-restore` and then select a file to restore! I couldn't find an alternative with `gio` . see [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/945550/restore-files-moved-to-trash-using-command-line) – Farid Cheraghi Apr 27 '20 at 07:59

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 23 '23 at 10:30

You can list all the files in the trash by using trash-list. First, install it by running:

sudo apt install trash-cli

Now, you can list the files by running:

trash-list

You may be interested in these other commands too:

Command	Description
`restore-trash`	Restore file from trash.
`trash`	Command line trash utility.
`trash-empty`	Empty trash.
`trash-list`	List trashed files.
`trash-put`	Put file in trash
`trash-rm`	Removes files matching a pattern from the trash can.

How to open "Trash" through terminal?

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