Sudo trash command doesn't work

Last year I found a Terminal command for emptying large amounts of trash, quickly. Now, using that command doesn't seem to work. Can I be doing something wrong?
I pasted this into Terminal: "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*".
Afterward I typed my password, and Terminal showed a dollar sign and the grey rectangle. But two hours later, none of the trash has been deleted. What is my mistake?

Thanks Niel, but I am using it without the quotes. Could I be doing anything else wrong?
Here's how it looks.
(I only made the command once. The earlier ones were from before I restarted.)

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