TRASH-EMPTY(1)

💖 TRASH-EMPTY(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's literally the manual for trash-empty, one of the trash-cli girlies. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

trash-empty — Empty for Command line trash utility.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

trash-empty [arguments]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It permanently removes any trashed file and trashed directory. no undo, no take-backs, no "wait bestie I didn't mean it" — gone fr fr 😭

This command is a part of the trash-cli package, which gives you a command line interface trashcan utility that's compliant with the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification. And it remembers the name, original path, deletion date, and permissions of each trashed file — like it keeps receipts, but make it ✨organized✨.

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• Want to remove all the trashed files? Just run trash-empty with no arguments. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 👑
• Want to remove files that have been sitting in the trash for more than a given number of days? Then it's trash-empty x, where x is that number of days. so trash-empty 7 = "anything older than 7 days, you gotta go 💀".

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

watch this glow-up happen in real time:

$ date
Tue Feb 19 20:26:52 CET 2008
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
2008-02-18 20:11:34 /home/einar/yesterday
2008-02-10 20:11:34 /home/einar/last_week
$ trash-empty 7
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
2008-02-18 20:11:34 /home/einar/yesterday
$ trash-empty 1
$ trash-list
2008-02-19 20:11:34 /home/einar/today
$ trash-empty
$ trash-list
<none>

see how last_week got evicted first? icon behavior honestly. then yesterday was next to go. then today dipped when we ran it bare. and then <none>. clean slate, main character energy 🧚✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please, report bugs to https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues

like, if something's busted, tell the devs, don't just suffer in silence bestie 🫶

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🥺 IF YOU WANT SAY THANKS 🥺

Tweet (to @andreafrancia or #trash-cli) or donate 1, 2 or 5 euros using paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=93L6PYT4WBN5A

it's giving gratitude era, and honestly? deserved 💖

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👑 CREDITS 👑

Trash was written by Andrea Francia <andrea@andreafrancia.it>. The original version of trash-empty was contributed by Einar Orn Olason <eoo@hi.is>. The first version of manual pages was written by Steve Stalcup <vorian@ubuntu.com> and was modified by Massimo Cavalleri <submax@tiscalinet.it>.

the founding mothers and fathers of trash. legends only 🙇‍♀️

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• trash-put(1)
• trash-list(1)
• trash-restore(1)
• trash-rm(1)
• and the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification at https://specifications.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-1.0.html

Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. slay, legally speaking 💅

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no cap: trash-empty permanently removes stuff. the trash can is not a storage unit bestie. once it's empty, it's empty. 🙈

okay that's the whole page, we made it to the bottom, and the footer just says TRASH-EMPTY(1) — that's the page name, right here in the General Commands Manual, and the source and version and date info is the same TRASH-EMPTY(1) footer energy. bye bestie, go empty responsibly 🌸💜🦋