Empty Trash in Gnome When the Trash Can Refuses to Clear

• Empty The Trash

  Force empties the user trash

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  alias trash="rm -fr ~/.local/share/Trash"
  unixmonkey1862 · 2009-02-27 01:55:30 0
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• A trash function for bash

  apt-get install trash-cli Commandline program that allows you put folders or files in the standard KDE/Unity desktop trash.

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  trash-put junkfolder
  Sepero · 2014-03-09 00:24:09 1
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• a trash function for bash

  Every rm'ed a file you needed? Of course you haven't. But I have. I got sick of it so I created a bash function. Here it is. It'll put trashed files into a $HOME/.Trash/"date" folder according to the date. I have rm aliased to it as well in my bashrc so that I still use the rm command. It'll choke if you attempt to trash a directory if that directory name is already in the Trash. This rarely happens in my case but it's easy enough to add another test and to mv the old dir if necessary. function trash(){ if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage: trash filename" else DATE=$( date +%F ) [ -d "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" ] || mkdir -p ${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE} for FILE in $@ ; do mv "${FILE}" "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" echo "${FILE} trashed!" done fi } Show Sample Output

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  $ trash file1 file2 file3
  file1 trashed!
  file2 trashed!
  file3 trashed!

  
  

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  trash <file>
  thebillywayne · 2009-11-25 16:45:15 8
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• Disable rm, use trash instead

  To prevent accidental deleting of files you can disable rm with this alias. Then use the trash command from trash-cli instead.

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  alias rm='echo "rm is disabled, use trash or /bin/rm instead."'
  captaincomic · 2012-01-27 03:11:45 0
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if you like using your trash can, you may also like the trash-cli package sudo aptitude install trash-cli It allows you to deal with the user trash directory from the command line with trash file so you can finally stop saying "OMG! I NEEDED THAT!" because you can then run restore-trash and put it back.

clockworkavian · 481 weeks and 3 days ago

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