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Old 04-05-2008
Emptying Trash

Hi all i hope someone can help me,
in gnome if you right click on trash, you get another menu appear 'Empty Trash'
what i want to do is be able to edit this command so that it secure deletes the trash, where is that command? so i can edit it. thanks in advance for any help,
Dave

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trash-list(1)						      General Commands Manual						     trash-list(1)

NAME
trash-list - List trashed files. SYNOPSIS
trash-list [OPTIONS]... [PATH]... DESCRIPTION
List all the contents of the trashcan. EXAMPLES
List all trashed files or grep output: $ trash-list 2008-06-23 21:57:26 /home/andrea/src/bluetrash/pippo 2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:53:13 /media/disk/adsfljasldj $ trash-list | grep foo 2008-06-23 21:50:41 /home/andrea/foobar 2008-06-23 21:50:49 /home/andrea/foobar BUGS
Report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/issues AUTHORS
Trash was written by Andrea Francia <andreafrancia@users.sourceforge.net> and Einar Orn Olason <eoo@hi.is>. This manual page was written by Steve Stalcup <vorian@ubuntu.com>. Changes made by Massimo Cavalleri <submax@tiscalinet.it>. SEE ALSO
trash-put(1), trash-restore(1), trash-empty(1), and the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification at http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. trash-list(1)