empty-trash

Empty the trash

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Install

npm install empty-trash

Usage

import emptyTrash from 'empty-trash';

await emptyTrash();

Info

On macOS, AppleScript is used as it's the only way to do it without incurring permission issues.

On Linux, the XDG spec is followed.

On Windows, empty-recycle-bin is used.

Related

• empty-trash-cli - CLI for this module
• trash - Move files and folders to the trash