Emtyping trash

[John Dennis]

Is there a way to empty the trash by using rm with out having to reply each 
time?  I can not empty the trash because of items in the trash that are 
causing problems.  I have used rm before, but each time it asks for each file 
in the trash and some of these can be quite long.  I just want to be able to 
remove every thing I have in the trash with out responding.  I have used the 
different commands with rm, but they do not seem to do what I want done.