How to access Trash Folder using Mac Terminal Command

We can access the Trash folder using the Terminal by making use of the cd command followed by ~/.Trash.

% cd ~/.Trash

% pwd 
/Users/c2ctech/.Trash

Now but when you try to do an ls command, you will get an error "ls: .: Operation not permitted"

This can still be handly to move files to Trash from Terminal instead of using the rm command which will delete the file(s) permanently.

mv oldfile.csv ~/.Trash

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