How to open the trash folder and empty the trash in command line

cmx08 · 08-23-2008, 11:38 AM

Hi All

I m using Linux fedora core. Can I know how to open the trash folder and empty the trash in command line? I can't find the trash folder.

Thx.

aus9 · 08-23-2008, 08:32 PM

Code:

rm /home/name/.local/share/Trash/info/* /home/name/.local/share/Trash/files/*

change name to your name pls

check the pathway first in case your distro differs...I use a KDE sidux distro

okos · 08-23-2008, 10:52 PM

To be safe and not accidentally delete something by mistyping, I would do the following:

cd /home/name/.local/share/Trash/info/
ls
rm file name
or
rm -fr directory

you can use the wild card "*" as you please.

rm filename.*

cmx08 · 08-29-2008, 08:46 AM

Hi all thx for reply but i still can't open the trash folder.

Code:

[root@localhost /]# cd /home/chong/.local/share/Trash/files/
-bash: cd: /home/chong/.local/share/Trash/files/: No such file or directory
[root@localhost /]# cd /home/chong/.local/share/Trash/info/
-bash: cd: /home/chong/.local/share/Trash/info/: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# cd /home/chong/.local/
-bash: cd: /home/chong/.local/: No such file or directory

It appear no such file or directory. One more thing I can't find the /.local in the /home/chong. Why?

cmx08 · 08-29-2008, 09:12 AM

Now i found the /.Trash directory in /home/chong directory but I can't see any file I delete.

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cd /home/chong/.Trash
[root@localhost .Trash]# ls -la
total 16
drwx------  2 chong chong 4096 Aug 17 00:51 .
drwx------ 33 chong chong 4096 Aug 21 16:23 ..
[root@localhost .Trash]#

arizonagroovejet · 08-29-2008, 09:15 AM

Are you using GNOME or KDE? Last time I checked they kept their Trash in different places. This is one of those cases where what is important is what desktop environment you are using rather than what distro you are using.

KDE keeps the trash in ~/.local/share/Trash and you can empty from the command line using

Code:

ktrash --empty

Gnome I believe keeps it's trash in ~/.Trash and I guess to empty that from the command line you just us

Code:

rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

I Don't know about other desktop environments.

~/.local/share/Trash is the location used by applications that follow the XDG desktop standards from Freedesktop.org. The info directory is used to store information about when a file was put in to Trash and where it was before it was put in to Trash. This allows you to do things like restore a file back to it's original location and write scripts to do nifty stuff like automatically delete files from Trash once they've been in there for a certain amount of time. It's more sophisticated than just moving files in to ~/.Trash