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

[~flipper]

PoolMouse wrote:

>>
>>Tried and failed:
>>
>>>Last login: Mon Apr 25 14:47:43 on ttyp3
>>>Welcome to Darwin!
>>>Home-Server:~ gibsonm$ chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/Leviathan/.Trash/*
>>>chflags: /Volumes/Leviathan/.Trash/*: No such file or directory
>>>Home-Server:~ gibsonm$ chflags -R nouchg ~/.Trash/*
>>>chflags: /Users/gibsonm/.Trash/*: No such file or directory
>>>Home-Server:~ gibsonm$
>
>can you run an ls -l of the directory you're trying to flush?
>
>thanks,
>don

why all the chflags stuff????

Just open the terminal. type sudo rm -r  (type <space> after the -r).

drag and drop the files/folders to the terminal window, let em go, 
and hit return

type the password, when requested, hit return. Done.

this isn't rocket science.

Brian S