Trash Stuff From the Command Line

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Daz

A great little command-line tool for Leopard:

osx-trash manipulates the Mac OS X trash from the command line, just like the Finder does. It uses AppleScript via Scripting Bridge on top of to communicate with the Finder. You can move files to the trash, empty the trash, and list items currently in the trash.

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One Response to Trash Stuff From the Command Line

  1. April Michele says:
    July 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Well thank you very much for this enlightening information. I will use it.

    April

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