Location of Trash bin

[Thotheolh]

Hi. I am trying to locate the actual location of the Trash bin folder so I could shred my files in the trash bin. I tried to look in the "/.local/share/Trash" location but it did not work out.

Below is my terminal interaction:

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adhovmos@adhovmos-VirtualBox ~ $ cd /home/adhovmos/.local/share/Trash
bash: cd: /home/adhovmos/.local/share/Trash: No such file or directory

I would like to know the actual location of it as I am writing a PyGTK application called Shredder (http://code.google.com/p/shredder) that would allow users to one-click shred their Trash bins as part of it's feature and I am attempting to test it out on Linux Mint since it is an Ubuntu-based distro.

[viking777]

Do you have a trash system at all? (like an icon in your file manager) If you do, create an empty file called something like testfilexxx and send it to trash. Then run

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sudo updatedb

followed by

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locate testfilexxx

That will tell you where it has gone. You could use the find command if you wanted, but if you do you have to tell it where to look (which has always seemed a pretty daft idea to me) and as you don't know where it has gone you would have to search the entire file system which would take an awful lot longer than using locate.