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I did Move to Trash > Empty Trash. However, .fileNames and .directoryNames stay in the filesystem

  • those .files/.directories which have exactly the same name as my deleted files/directories

For instance, select to host the folder where you did removals. All your removals will be shared too. This is not what I want because it can lead to severe mistakes.

I would like to do the thing as a one-liner, probably by gsettings. This would help the maintenance and future installations. Malyy's answer is about the GUI approach by enabling Include a delete command bypasses Trash, but I really need a one-liner.

Systems: Ubuntu 16.04

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    Some of the .fileNames and .directoryNames are recreated by other programs. Which files specifically we're talking about here ? Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 9:21

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Reset to default
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In Nautilus -> Preferences -> Properties (or preferences) -> Behaviour

Enable "Include a delete command bypasses Trash"

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  • rm -f .filename Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 13:02
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From the CLI, as requested:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-delete true

Explanation requested from OP:

Nautilus is a part of GNOME, so it stores preferences under org.gnome.nautilus.preferences. From there, just had to look at the list.

Also, you can get all Nautilus-related settings by gsettings list-recursively | grep nautilus.

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    in case somebody wants to do this on Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic): gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-delete-permanently true Commented May 23, 2018 at 8:15

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