Empty Trash quickly from Command Line in Linux

I find it useful to be able to quickly delete the Trash on any Linux box I am working on. To do this is straight forward on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Arch Linux.

Where Trash Resides

• List your Trash files under :

$ ls -la ~/.local/share/Trash/

• The 'files' sub-directory is the actual files 
• The 'info' sub-directory is the metadata for each file
• The 'expunged' sub-directory can have have content when a folder that belongs to you but contains files that don't is deleted

Manual Method 

• You can manually remove :

 $ rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
 $ rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/info/*
 $ rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged/*

trash-cli package

• Recommended method
• Install

$ sudo apt-get install -y trash-cli

• Foe arch install from the AUR 
• List trash contents

$ trash-list
2013-07-20 15:06:23 /home/lclark/tmp/experimental

• Empty trash

 $ trash-empty

• List contents and its empty

 $ trash-list

• Enjoy !