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

Mark Gibson gibsonm at bigpond.net.au
Sun Apr 24 22:09:20 PDT 2005


At 01:03 -0400 25/4/05, PoolMouse wrote:
>John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>...remove the tilde in the second command.
>
>don

Don,

Thanks, but I suspect rm is only good for files and I"m talking about 
an issue with a folder / directory.
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