CLI-Cleaner 1.1

A command-line tool for safely cleaning files and directories using customizable rules and dry-run preview

🧹 cleaner

cleaner is a powerful and safe CLI tool for cleaning up unwanted files and directories in your project, with support for dry-run mode, glob patterns, and rich terminal output.

✨ Features

• Dry-run mode (--delete optional)
• Match by:
  • folder name (--dirs)
  • file name (--files)
  • glob patterns (--globs)
• Rich output with icons and colors
• Ignore specific files and folders
• Root directory control (--root)
• Works well with pipx or uv tool install

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🚀 Installation

Install via pipx:

pipx install git+https://github.com/DasKaroWow/cli_cleaner.git

Or with uv:

uv tool install --from git+https://github.com/DasKaroWow/cli_cleaner

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🛠 Usage

cleaner --dirs __pycache__ -g "*.pyc" -g "build/**" --delete

🔎 Dry-run (default):

cleaner --files project_dump.txt --globs "*.log"

🗑️ Real delete:

cleaner --dirs dist --delete

📁 Specify root directory:

cleaner --dirs .venv --root ./backend --delete

🙈 Ignore certain files/folders:

cleaner --dirs __pycache__ --ignore-dirs migrations --ignore-files keep.py

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💻 Example Output

👀 DRY RUN in /home/user/project
👀 Would delete: src/__pycache__/utils.cpython-310.pyc
👀 Would delete: build/output.txt
────────────────────────────────────────────
👀 2 files will be deleted with --delete option

Or:

🗑️ DELETING in /home/user/project
🗑️ Deleting: dist/
✅ done
────────────────────────────────────────────
🗑️ 1 files successfully deleted; 0 could not be deleted

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📦 Project layout

src/
└── cleaner/
    ├── cli.py
    ├── __init__.py
    └── __main__.py

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✅ Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• typer
• rich

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📄 License

MIT License