Empty Trash custom action

[mischievous]

I see this as a way to get rid of the evil dock (Ok, not evil but I don't like it). If I could empty the trash (like once a month most of the time I use rm {blah}), then its one less dependancy I have on the dock.

[vulpes-vulpeos]

Had same problem. Currently solved it with xbar and custom bash script. You need to provide full disk access to xbar for it to work.

#!/bin/bash
#
# <xbar.title>Trash Bin Status</xbar.title>
# <xbar.version>v0.1</xbar.version>
# <xbar.author>Vulpes-Vulpeos</xbar.author>
# <xbar.desc>Plugin for xbar that shows if trash bin has anything in it and allows to empty it.</xbar.desc>

TRASH_COUNT=$(ls -1q "$HOME/.Trash/" | wc -l)
ICON_TRASH_EMPTY="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";
ICON_TRASH_FULL="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"

if [ "$1" = 'empty_trash' ]
then
    osascript -e '
    tell application "Finder"
        empty the trash
    end tell'
    exit
fi

if [ "$1" = 'open_trash_folder' ]
then
    open "$HOME/.Trash/"
    exit
fi

if [[ "${TRASH_COUNT}" -eq 0 ]] 
then
    echo "| templateImage=${ICON_TRASH_EMPTY}";
else
    echo "| templateImage=${ICON_TRASH_FULL}";
fi

echo '---'
echo "${TRASH_COUNT} item(s) | bash='$0' param1=open_trash_folder terminal=false"
echo "Empty Bin | bash='$0' param1=empty_trash terminal=false refresh=true"

exit

[EthanSK]

xbar is crinj