Recycle File

[SMcNeill]

Yes, justsomeguy has an Intel-based Mac while mine is an M2 ARM-based Mac, which is about four years old. Yesterday I looked up "mv" and "trash" and I coulda sworn it said that the Mac/Unix terminal command trash was introduced in 2023, but now I can't find that. And what I did find says that the trash command is non-native and requires installing with third-party software. Wha?!  I just tried it again and it works fine, so I'm fairly flummoxed with this.

I just created a dummy file and used Terminal to "trash /users/me/desktop/crap.pages" and the file was successfully moved to the trash can. Maybe Sam @a740g can shine some light on this? 

Here's what I've found concerning the command:

An official, native trash command-line tool was introduced to macOS starting with macOS 15 Sequoia.  While the first version of macOS to support ARM-based Apple Silicon was macOS 11 Big Sur (released November 2020), it did not include a built-in command-line utility for moving files to the Trash; users previously relied on third-party tools like brew install trash or shell aliases for rm.
Timeline of the trash Command:
-- macOS 11 Big Sur (2020): First ARM64 support, but no native trash CLI tool.
-- macOS 15 Sequoia (2024): Introduction of the official Apple-provided trash command.
Functionality: The native command allows users to move files to the system Trash folder via Terminal without permanently deleting them (unlike the rm command).

So it seems trash will work on newer, more modern machines, but not on older versions.  Now if I can sort out why mv won't work on your system.  LOL!  Looks like there's still more digging to do on this mystery.