What's the difference between trash and macos-trash

[wolfogre]

Just a kind question, is it a new wheel, or does it have some new stuff?

I asked like this because I've been using https://hasseg.org/trash/ for years. It can be installed by the standard Homebrew tap.

BTW, there's another similar tool named macos-trash in Homebrew.

PS: I found this repo from https://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2024/11/weekly-issue-327.html

[TBXark]

1. trash

Provide two types of deletion logic

1. It is using NSAppleEventDescriptor to simulate the real deletion operation in the Finder. You can think of it as a wrapper for a Apple Script. Because it did not use the system api, there are now some issues due to years of lack of maintenance.
   https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash/blob/master/trash.m#L278

2. Use FSMoveObjectToTrashSync for deletion, but this API has been deprecated since macOS 10.8.
   https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash/blob/master/trash.m#L378
   https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/1566651-fsmoveobjecttotrashsync

Although a -F flag bit is provided to let you choose which logic to use, the final implementation is equivalent to rm -rf, which does not provide any support for the rm feature.
https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash/blob/master/trash.m#L500

2. macos-trash

It only calls try FileManager.default.trashItem(at: url, resultingItemURL: nil), without supporting other features of rm, which is equivalent to rm -rf, and this is quite dangerous.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/macos-trash/blob/main/Sources/trash/main.swift#L12-L14

3. rmtrash

Provides support for all rm features, uses all the latest FileManager APIs, stable compatibility

OVERVIEW: Move files and directories to the trash.

rmtrash is a small utility that will move the file to macOS's Trash rather than obliterating the file (as rm does).

USAGE: rmtrash [--force] [-i] [-I] [--interactive <interactive>] [--one-file-system] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--recursive] [--dir] [--verbose] [--version] [<paths> ...]

ARGUMENTS:
  <paths>                 The files or directories to move to trash.

OPTIONS:
  -f, --force             Ignore nonexistant files, and never prompt before removing.
  -i                      Prompt before every removal.
  -I                      Prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively. This option is less intrusive than -i, but still gives protection
                          against most mistakes.
  --interactive <interactive>
                          Prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or always (-i). If WHEN is not specified, then prompt always.
  -x, --one-file-system   When removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any directory that is on a file system different from that of the corresponding command line argument
  --preserve-root/--no-preserve-root
                          Do not remove "/" (the root directory), which is the default behavior. (default: --preserve-root)
  -r, -R, --recursive     Recursively remove directories and their contents.
  -d, --dir               Remove empty directories. This option permits you to remove a directory without specifying -r/-R/--recursive, provided that the directory is empty. In
                          other words, rm -d is equivalent to using rmdir.
  -v, --verbose           Verbose mode; explain at all times what is being done.
  --version               Display version information, and exit.
  --version               Show the version.
  --help                  Show help information.

[TBXark]

Maybe when I get enough stars I can submit a formula to homebrew/core 🤣