Hello all. Our environment consists of Red Hat (mixed 5.X & 6.X) with an LDAP server (CLI-only).

I realize this may come as a shock to you other systems administrators, but we're finding that our users are having issues with cleanup. /sarcasm

Particularly, the .Trash for each user gets significantly huge with the Matlab and other software that ends up taking too much space.

I'm thinking a "for i in $(cat /home/<user>/.local/Trash/*); do rm $i; done" would work, but I'm not quite sure how to substitute <user> for a variable to catch all of them.

Any/all feedback is hugely appreciated.

rm /home/*/.local/Trash/*

Maybe use ls first to see if it really does what you want?

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And, if I may say, there might be a human politics issue here.

People "(sometimes ...) (sometimes r-e-a-l-l-y ... trust me on this!) don't like for you to" ...

... 'solve' their 'problems' for them. (Just sayin' ...)

Ready for a "blast from the video past" that ... (ga-a-a-a-ack!! I actually remember???) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8

... yeah, it's not 'nice' to fool a ((s)he's tenured, you're not ...) researcher," either.

(Just sayin' ...)

Thanks for the suggestions thus far. I'm looking for something a bit more fool-proof where a user variable would allow the script to remove trash for all users. Perhaps something where it first does a check for the username in /home/, then based on the output, would rm the trash.

do you want to parse the first column of /etc/passwd ?

Perhaps that along with a check for a uid above 500.