Rare find

Trash. Move files and folders to the trash instead of permanently deleting them.

github.com/sindresorhus/trash

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Updates

February 2026

Release — Feb 25
10.1.1 Feb 25
Fix “Put Back” when trashing multiple files Feb 25

January 2026

Throw descriptive error for invalid filename encoding on Linux Jan 25
Release — Jan 25
10.1.0 Jan 25
Add test for Unicode characters in filename Jan 25
Update dependencies Jan 25
Add test for glob exclusion patterns Jan 25
Fix incorrect trash directory on NixOS and systems with bind mounts Jan 25
Document that non-existent files are silently ignored Jan 25
Add WSL support to move files to Windows Recycle Bin (#133) Jan 25

December 2025

Release — Dec 7
10.0.1 Dec 7
Fix CI Dec 7
Linux: Encode `.trashinfo` path per XDG spec (#134) Dec 7
Switch to non-deprecated `chunkify` package (#136) Dec 7

September 2025

Minor tweaks Sep 23
Use static string path imports to load the platform-specific implemen… Sep 18
Fix CI Sep 10
Release — Sep 10
10.0.0 Sep 10
Document Windows service account behavior Sep 10
Require Node.js 20 Sep 10

July 2024

Release — Jul 26

February 2023

Release — Feb 11

December 2021

Release — Dec 18

October 2021

Release — Oct 1

June 2021

Release — Jun 13

March 2021

Release — Mar 8