Summary: Removing trash files

From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 16:26:31 EST


Dear managers,

thanks a lot for all the responses. The best solution for my problems
seems to be

> find /home -type d -name .Trash -exec rm -rf {} \;

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

        Andreas

>> Dear managers,
>>
>> please excuse me for asking a probably trivial question, but I did not
>> get this figuered out so far. I have home directories in /home. Each
>> user has a dir .Trash in its home dir. I want to setup a cron job that
>> clears all .Trash dirs in all home dirs (rm -rf *)
>>
>> I have alread setup the following for core files.
>>
>> 0 3 * * 1-5 find / -name core 2>/dev/null | xargs rm -f > /dev/null
>> 2>&1
>>
>> However the trash thing is more complicated since I am looking for
>> dirs
>> not files. I tried stuff like
>>
>> find /home -name "*./Trash*"
>>
>> without much success.
>>
>> Thnaks!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andreas
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