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Trash & Restore Scripting Issue

Hi there, new to the forums.

I'm currently working on two scripts. The first takes a file and sens it to a folder named "Trash", as a method of file deletion. This works fine. Note this script also takes the "original file path" and stores it into a file.

The 2nd script is the issue. I'm currently trying to take the file path from file and restore the file to it's original destination. I will attach both scripts for your input.

Code:

echo "Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin?" "(Yes/No)"

read ans

case "$ans" in

Yes) echo "$(readlink -f "$1")" >> "$HOME/TrashLog" && mv "$1" "$HOME/my-documents/mydir01/Trash" ;;

No) echo "File was NOT deleted and remains. "

esac

this is working fine ^

Code:

#!/bin/bash



#Restore Script - this script will restore a previously deleted file (in trash). Back to it's original location.



#restore="$(grep "$1" "$HOME/Paths")"



#filename="$(basename "$restore")"



#location1="$(readlink -f "$location")"



mv -i "$1" "$(grep "$1" "$HOME/TrashLog")"



# End

Note i commented out a previous attempt.

Thankyou very much in advance if you do take the time to assist me. I understand it's a very simplistic issue, but i'm just starting out and a little confused!

With a couple of changes, and using only your original code, this works:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin?" "(Yes/No)"

        read ans

        case "$ans" in

                Yes) echo "$(readlink -f $1)" >> "$HOME/TrashLog" && mv "$1" "$HOME/my-documents/mydir01/Trash" ;;

                No) echo "File was NOT deleted and remains. ";;

esac

Code:

#!/bin/bash

restore=$(find my-documents/* | grep $1)

filename=$(readlink -f $restore)

mv -i "$filename" "$(grep $1 $HOME/TrashLog)"

But, in the future, you will have a lot of problems with this script. There are a lot of ways to break it in its current form.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

restore=$(find my-documents/* | grep $1)

filename=$(readlink -f $restore)

mv -i "$filename" "$(grep $1 $HOME/TrashLog)"

But, in the future, you will have a lot of problems with this script. There are a lot of ways to break it in its current form.[/QUOTE]

I had a look at this, and tested it. I actually was returned with an error.

(There is a file in Trash currently called "Derp".)

I did.. restore derp. In the console. I was returned with..
"find: `my-document/*': No such file or directory
readlink: missing operand
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
mv:cannot stat `/root/my-documents/mydir01/derp: no such file or directory

Super confused :/

Is this a permissions issue? or something not quite working with the original code which is causing issues later with my restore?

Thanks for your time.

Still very eager for any assistance someone could shed? Ripping my hair out currently!

A friend gave me this segment of script here, which looks like it could be useful, this also doesn't work. However the error i get is one of which it claims the file cannot be moved as there is no such file or directory. I think we're getting close?

Code:

mv -i "$1$ "$(grep "$1" "$HOME/TrashLog")"

update: after some help from other sources. I'm now at this stage..

#!/bin/bash

Code:

cd "$HOME/my-documents/mydir01/Trash" || exit 1

mv -i "$(grep "$1" "$HOME/TrashLog")"

again any help at this stage would be amazing.