Configuration

del has no real configuration other than where on the system to keep the trash folder and its database, both of which are controlled by the below environment variables.

Environment Variables

TRASH_FOLDER

By default, the program will move objects to the ~/.Trash folder. This is for consistency with systems like macOS and most Linux distributions. In this way, the empty trash operation on these systems will also remove anything put there by the del program via the command-line. You can specify a different location via the TRASH_FOLDER environment variable. For example, in your ~/.bashrc.

export TRASH_FOLDER=$HOME/.deleted

TRASH_DATABASE

By default, the path to the database is ${TRASH_FOLDER}.db, which would be ~/.Trash.db if the TRASH_FOLDER environment variable is undefined. This path should not be inside the trash folder. You can specify a different location via the TRASH_DATABASE environment variable. For example, in your ~/.bashrc.

export TRASH_DATABASE=$HOME/.my_trash.db