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\n<\/p>\nLike it happens on Windows, when you decide to delete something OSX simply moves that file or directory to “the Trash”, which is just a hidden directory on the volume you’re deleting from. Then, you right click on the Trash icon and select “Empty trash”.
\nThis action pops up a small window like this:<\/p>\n
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I grew tired of asking myself what OSX was deleting (the operation can take a while, especially when — as I often do — you’re doing a secure erase) so this ugly one-liner, run as root, will give you the file the OS is working on:<\/p>\n
It will output something like this: You can wrap that command inside the usual while\/sleep loop if you want something that keeps you updated on what is going on — or make it an alias for your favourite shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like it happens on Windows, when you decide to delete something OSX simply moves that file or directory to “the Trash”, which is just a hidden directory on the volume you’re deleting from. Then, you right click on the Trash icon and select “Empty trash”. This action pops up a small window like this: I … Continue reading “Verbosely emptying the trash”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-english","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nps auxw | grep -i locum | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs lsof -p | grep -i Trash | awk '{print $9}'
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\n\/Volumes\/FAT80GB\/.Trashes\/502\/xcode3210a432.dmg<\/code><\/p>\n