How to Permanently Delete your Trash Files using Terminal Linux

Sometimes when you move your files to Trash, it is not permanently deleted from the system. In order to remove it completely, you can follow this step below. 

In this tutorial, I have access to the server to delete the files from my local PC.

# Navigate to server from your local PC. I only have normal user permission access to the server known as HPC3. 
 novopc4@novopc2:~$ ssh app_user@hpc3 

 #Put in your access password (xxxxx) 
app_user@hpc3's password: xxxxx 
Last login: Fri Aug 28 09:17:13 2020 from novopc3.local -bash: /opt/sge/novo/common/settings.sh: Permission denied

 # Next, you can access using "su root" to get permission for deleting files later 
app_user@hpc3:~$ su root 

 # Granted the password again (xxxxx) --ask root password from your admin Password: xxxxx 
 Note:  now u login as a root, only root can have permission to delete files in the server

# Access to your files thrash location, you need to "cd" the location
 root@hpc3:~# cd /export/home/hamidah/.local/share/Trash/files 

# list out the files in your Trash using "ls" command root@hpc3:/export/home/hamidah/.local/share/Trash/files# ls 

# remove permanently your selected Trash directory related to files, root@hpc3:/export/home/hamidah/.local/share/Trash/files# rm -r * 

# remove permanently your selected Trash directory related to expunged, root@hpc3:/export/home/hamidah/.local/share/Trash/expunged# rm -r *

#Please note that if your are accessing your server as a owner file, you may straight away delete your files using
sudo rm -rf /export/home/hamidah/.local/share/Trash/files/*