Some people have a common "bad" practice of deleting items permanently as seeing the Trash (Recycle Bin for poor Windows users) non-empty provokes them! Rule of thumb: don't ever permanently delete your files, the trash is a great feature, so please use it! You never know when you will need those files again.
However, by time your trash size will grow up and take a lot of space of your storage. No, I won't ask you to empty it every now and then. The best practice is to only delete files that are older than a specific date, lets say 30 days.
To be short, this is a little bash script that will calculate the total trash size then deletes those old items and print again the new size:
You can change the victim to ~/Downloads or whatsoever, you can also change the number of days to weeks or months or whatsoever.
Use it at your own risk :)
For your convenience I have created 2 scripts, one for Trash, the other for Downloads. Download them to your home and just
execute them whenever you run out of space.
However, by time your trash size will grow up and take a lot of space of your storage. No, I won't ask you to empty it every now and then. The best practice is to only delete files that are older than a specific date, lets say 30 days.
To be short, this is a little bash script that will calculate the total trash size then deletes those old items and print again the new size:
victim=~/.Trash
echo Calculating $victim size...
echo $victim size: `du -sh $victim | cut -f1`
echo -n "Emptying $victim items older than 30 days, please be patient..."
find $victim -mtime +30d -exec rm -fr {} \; &> /dev/null
echo Done
echo Current $victim size: `du -sh $victim | cut -f1`
./empty-trash-older-than-30d.sh ./empty-downloads-older-than-30d.sh
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