Sweep
Sweep is a utility that will recursively delete a specified file mask starting from your current directory.
Examples
Quiet Mode
$ node ./sweep.js --quiet --ext bak,tmp,temp,save
Lots of output
$ node ./sweep.js --ext bak,tmp,temp,save
History
- 4/8/2012: Initial Release
- 4/9/2012: Ignore Symbolic Link's
Install
clone the git project:
git clone http://github.com/hazlema/Sweep-NodeJS.git
Make it a system utility (unix)
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/sweep
sudo mv * /usr/lib/sweep/.
sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/sweep/sweep.js
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/sweep/sweep.js /usr/bin/sweep
Make it a system utility (windows)
Create: directory c:\Utils
Copy: everything to that directory
Open: Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings
Click: Environment Variables
Edit: In the box that's called 'System Variables' look for the PATH variable and double click
Type: C:\Utils; (at the start of the line)
Click: OK
Click: OK
Platform note
Isn't windows 8 step process so much easier then unix's 4 steps :-)
Inspiration
Inspired by one of my all time favorite DOS applications that shared the same name.
(I think sweep for DOS was about 15 years ago, time for a port :-))