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Empty ZFS trash on Mac OS X
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zfsEmptyTrash.sh
#!/bin/sh
# If you use ZFS of Mac OS X 10.5 right now
# then you know that emptying the trash
# will not empty the trash on ZFS filesystems
# however we can do this with brute force.
list=`zfs list -o mountpoint -t filesystem | sed 1d`
for filesystem in $list
do
sudo rm -rf $filesystem/.Trashes/*
sudo rm -rf $filesystem/.Trash/*
done
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