[X-Unix] Using the CLI to delete "pesky" files/folders

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Mark Gibson assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Hi,
| 
| I'm the first to admit the the CLI is not my forte (to be honest that 
| is why I got away from Fortran, COBOL, CP-M and DOS a long, long 
| while ago).
| 
| However I have some folders and files that just sit in the trash and 
| refuse to be deleted, so I'm hoping that "sudo ..." something can 
| remove them for me.
| 
| These files refuse to be deleted because either they are "invisible" 
| in the Finder or allegedly I don't have the correct privileges.
| 
| I've tried booting the volume up in OS 9 to avoid the permission 
| issues but deleting ./trash doesn't seem to help.

OS X seems to story the trash in ~/.Trash

Try something like:

rm -rf ~/.Trash/*.*

If that doesn't work you can try:

sudo rm -rf ~/username/.Trash/*.*

Where username is your login. 

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