Need some help with the terminal

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{uac} revenge{uac} revenge
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hello, I'm new so I'm not quite sure how this works so I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I just got a mac a few weeks ago and I'm just scoping out it's features. At the moment I'm trying to find a way to use the terminal to delete all files in a folder with out deleting the actual folder itself. Or maybe moving the files to the trash can? Any help would be well appreciated. Thanks

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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    mv <drag folder>* ~/.Trash



    Basically type mv then drag in a folder, add a * symbol at the end to signify all files and then put the URL to the user's trash folder.



    You would get something like this:



    mv /Documents/some_folder/* ~/.Trash



    It's better to not mess around with rm because you don't get any second chances with it and you can mess up some stuff badly if you mis-type URLs. Drag and drop is much safer.
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    {uac} revenge{uac} revenge Posts: 2member
    Oh OK thanks, yea the only reason i wanted to use rm is so I could automate it using CronniX, but I like the idea of moving it to the trash better. Thank you you so much, works perfectly!!!
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