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

PoolMouse poolmouse_nyc at mac.com
Sun Apr 24 22:03:35 PDT 2005


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


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