Bash script to empty HUGE Trash Can? [Solved]

[Niely]

Hello

I've got a small problem.
Somehow I got so amazingly much files in my Trash Can that it's impossible to delete them all in once.
The delete trash-can command also doesn't work, if I try to delete a few; my PC just stucks.

So, I need a Bash snippet which will delete ONE file at a time from my Trash Can, with a timeout of 1 second.
That way my RAM doesn't get overloaded and after letting it running a night the job will be done.

So, any Bash script that can do this?

Thanks for reading,
Niely

[kyphi]

Why not use this command:

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sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

[Niely]

Like I said it doesn't work. It must one by one with a time-span of one second.
That command just ends in terminal, but doesn't delete anything.

[Niely]

^Thanks a lot! Exactly what I needed and it's very useful + helpful.

[tadaensylvermane]

just for reference a for loop would be the way to get 1 file every second, at least is how i would do it...

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for i in ~/.local/share/Trash/files/* ; do
  rm -rf "$i"
  sleep 1
done