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Wastebasket
Safe file deletion package
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- License
- Not Specified
- Last updated
- Apr 1, 2026
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Overview
What is Wastebasket?
Safe file deletion package
In depth
A closer look at Wastebasket
It is (hopefully) helpful for those people like me who tend to do an 'rm *' in the wrong directory. It provides a shared library libwastebasket.so that implements a new unlink library call. If this library is preloaded calling unlink() will not really remove the file, but move it into the wastebasket.
There are also some programs provided to access, restore or purge the deleted files:
- wbls: list contents of the wastebasket
- wbdu: summarizes disk usage of the wastebasket
- wbrestore: restore file(s)
- wbpurge: remove parts of the wastebasket
- realrm: really remove a file no matter if libwastebasket is installed or not
Michael
P.S.: I'm certainly interested in feedback.
There are also some programs provided to access, restore or purge the deleted files:
- wbls: list contents of the wastebasket
- wbdu: summarizes disk usage of the wastebasket
- wbrestore: restore file(s)
- wbpurge: remove parts of the wastebasket
- realrm: really remove a file no matter if libwastebasket is installed or not
Michael
P.S.: I'm certainly interested in feedback.
Verdict
Should you download Wastebasket?
Wastebasket runs on Linux and is available under the Not Specified license — the installer is 0 KB. We’ve catalogued it under Disk.
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At a glance
Wastebasket specifications
- Category
- Disk
- Publisher
- Michael Meskes
- Last updated
- Apr 1, 2026
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 631
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