Alias that empties the trash for all external mounted volumes (too?) about dotfiles HOT 2 CLOSED

I hate you. You made me look at AppleScript again.

tell application "Finder"
    set ejectableDisks to every disk whose ejectable is true
    repeat with theDisk in ejectableDisks
        do shell script "sudo rm -rvf " & quoted form of POSIX path of (theDisk as alias) & ".Trashes"
    end repeat
end tell

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Nice work!

Here’s your script in alias format:

# Empty the Trash on the main HDD and all ejectable mounted volumes
alias emptytrash="rm -rfv ~/.Trash; osascript <<< 'tell application \"Finder\"
    set ejectableDisks to every disk whose ejectable is true
    repeat with theDisk in ejectableDisks
        do shell script \"sudo rm -rvf \" & quoted form of POSIX path of (theDisk as alias) & \".Trashes\"
    end repeat
end tell'"

I noticed that wireless network disks have ejectable == false so this snippet doesn’t target them, unfortunately.

To be honest, I forgot why I wanted to exclude all partitions on the main HDD from this. I’m sure there was a reason… But for now, perhaps a simple alias emptytrash="sudo rm -rfv /Volumes/*/.Trashes; rm -rfv ~/.Trash" could suffice after all.

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