darwin-trash

#!/bin/zsh

# This tool is so that I don’t need a 400-line shell script [1] or a 2k-line
# Objective-C program [2].
#
# [1]: https://github.com/morgant/tools-osx/blob/71c2db389c48cee8d03931eeb083cfc68158f7ed/src/trash
# [2]: https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash

set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
readonly COMMAND=${0:t}  # only keep the Tail segment

function log-notice() {
	logger "darwin-trash ($$) Notice: $*"
}

function main() {
	if (( $# == 0 )) || [[ $# == 1 && $1 == (-h|--help) ]]
	then
		echo "Usage: $COMMAND <file>..."
		return
	fi

	local arg
	for arg
	do
		if [[ -f $arg || -d $arg ]]
		then
			log-notice "Trying to trash file: $arg"

			# ${arg:a} resolves the Absolute path (logically)
			osascript <<- EOF
				tell application "Finder" to delete "${arg:a}" as POSIX file
			EOF
			log-notice "File trashed: $arg"
		else logger -s -p user.warning "darwin-trash ($$) Warning: not a directory or regular file, skipping: $arg"
		fi
	done
}

main $@