Re: Auto-emptying of trash.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Sharon Kimble
<boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to
> auto-empty a trash bin.
>
> This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it
> also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give
> me the size of my trash bin failed as there wasn’t a trash bin to
> evaluate!
>
> Here is the script lines -
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> find /media/boudiccas/back2/.Trash-1000 -type f -mtime +"$days" -delete;
> find /media/boudiccas/back2/.Trash-1000 -depth -type d -exec rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} +;
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Use "-mindepth 1":
[localhost:/home/th/Public]$ find .
.
[localhost:/home/th/Public]$ find . -mindepth 1
[localhost:/home/th/Public]$
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