I have made a new partition on a secondary drive, owned by my main user. I can use trash-put, but trash-empty does not remove the files. about trash-cli HOT 13 OPEN

trash-empty()
{
  local mountpoint folder dry
  local ndays=$1
  if [ "$1" == '-d' ] || [ "$2" == '-d' ]; then dry=echo; fi
  for mountpoint in $( cat /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $2; }' ); do
    for folder in ".Trash/$UID" ".Trash-$UID"; do # '$RECYCLE.BIN'
      if [ -d "$mountpoint/$folder" ]; then
        echo "Deleting '$mountpoint/$folder/' ..." 1>&2
        if [ "$ndays" -eq "$ndays" ] 2>/dev/null && [ "$ndays" != 0 ] && [ -d "$mountpoint/$folder/info/" ]; then
          # assuming that file modification date for .trashinfo files is the same as the DeletionDate stored inside that file
          # note that -mtime +0 will find all files older than 24h and +1 all files older than 2 days, ...
          find "$mountpoint/$folder/info/" -mtime "+$(( ndays-1 ))" -name '*.trashinfo' -print0 |
          sed -rz "s|^(.*)/${folder//./\\.}/info/(.*)\.trashinfo$|\1$folder/info/\2.trashinfo\x00\1$folder/files/\2|" |
          xargs -0 $dry 'rm' -r
        else
          $dry command rm -r "$mountpoint/$folder/"
        fi
      fi
    done
  done
}

ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ trash-put --version
trash-put 0.17.1.14
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ df -h .
Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rpool/fs/home/ryan/syncthing  1.2T  115G  1.1T  10% /home/ryan/syncthing
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ touch something
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ trash-put something
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ tree .Trash-1000/
.Trash-1000/
├── files
│   └── something
└── info
    └── something.trashinfo

2 directories, 2 files
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ trash-empty
ryan@mneme:~/syncthing⟫ tree .Trash-1000/
.Trash-1000/
├── files
│   └── something
└── info
    └── something.trashinfo

2 directories, 2 files

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# This script iterates through likely trash directories, and trashes files
# older than the number of days specified by the optional argument.

# Define usage
usage() {
  cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 [-d|-h] [days]
  -d          dry run
  -h          display this help text and exit
EOF
  exit 1
}

# Parse options
dry='false'
while getopts 'dh' opt; do
  case "${opt}" in
    d) dry='true' ;;
    *) usage; exit 1 ;;
  esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

# Act on dot files too
shopt -s dotglob
# Don't use a literal * if the directory is empty
shopt -s nullglob

# Get current date and time, and convert to epoch time
cursecs=$(date +%s)
maxdays=$1
maxsecs=$((maxdays * 86400)) # 86400 seconds in a day

# Check and delete files in a directory, given as an argument
analyse_trashdir() {
  trashdir="$1"
  echo "Inspecting $trashdir/ ..."
  # Iterate through info directory. If there are files without an info, they will be missed
  for file in $trashdir/info/*; do
    # Get date of deletion from the trashinfo file
    deldate=$(sed -n 's/^DeletionDate=\(.*\)/\1/p' "$file")
    # Convert date to epoch time
    delsecs=$(date -d $deldate +%s)
    diffsecs=$((cursecs - delsecs))
    if [ $diffsecs -gt $maxsecs ]; then
      basefile=$(basename "$file" .trashinfo)
      echo "  Deleting $basefile"
      # Command to delete the file itself
      delfile="rm -rf \"$(dirname "$(dirname "$file")")/files/$basefile\""
      # Command to delete the info too
      delinfo="rm -rf \"${file}\""
      # Indicate and delete the actual files. Separate the file and info, so error messages make sense.
      echo "    $delfile"
      if ! $dry; then
        eval "$delfile"
      fi
      echo "    $delinfo"
      if ! $dry; then
        eval "$delinfo"
      fi
    fi
  done
}

# Analyse trash directories based on mountpoints. Ignore those that will likely not contain trashes
for mountpoint in $(</proc/mounts cut -d ' ' -f2 | grep '^/\(boot\|dev\|proc\|run\|sys\|tmp\)' -v); do
  for trash_reldir in ".Trash/$UID" ".Trash-$UID"; do
    if [ -d "$mountpoint/$trash_reldir" ]; then
      analyse_trashdir "$mountpoint/$trash_reldir"
    fi
  done
done

# Analyse the normal location
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/share/Trash" ]; then
  analyse_trashdir "$HOME/.local/share/Trash"
fi

# Maybe look in $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash too? But this might be $HOME/.local/share/Trash

$ df -h
/dev/sda4        28G   13G   13G  50% /
/dev/sda5        77G   53G   20G  73% /opt
/dev/sdb8       114G   13G   95G  12% /home
$ ls -la /opt |grep -i trash
drwxrwxrwt  3 root root  4096 Aug 25 14:09 .Trash/
$ ls -la ~/.local/share |grep -i trash
drwxr-xr-x  4 yf yf  4096 Aug 22 14:31 Trash/
$ trash --verbose /home/yf/a.txt
trash: Volume of file: /home
trash: Trash-dir: /home/yf/.local/share/Trash from volume: /home
trash: '/home/yf/a.txt' trashed in ~/.local/share/Trash
$ trash --verbose /opt/playonlinux/b.txt
trash: Volume of file: /opt
trash: Trash-dir: /home/yf/.local/share/Trash from volume: /home
trash: Trash-dir: /opt/.Trash/1000 from volume: /opt
trash: '/opt/playonlinux/b.txt' trashed in /opt/.Trash/1000
$ trash-list 
2017-08-25 15:36:57 /home/yf/a.txt
$ trash-empty
$ ls /opt/.Trash/1000/files
b.txt

trash-empty(){
    local mountpoint
    for mountpoint in $( cat /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $2; }' ); do
        if [ -d "$mountpoint/.Trash/$UID" ]; then command rm -r "$mountpoint/.Trash/$UID/"; fi
        if [ -d "$mountpoint/.Trash-$UID" ]; then command rm -r "$mountpoint/.Trash-$UID/"; fi
    done
}