file_investigation

To identify files to cleanup a directory as per user's input

Input: a directory to be recursively searched Output: a csv report of files for deletion (category, full path to file).

This will include: identifying duplicate files, files which have not been accessed in over X days, files which are over Y bytes in size, directories containing large numbers of files, identifying uncompressed files.

usage: FileChecker.py [-h] [--dirname DIRNAME] [--days DAYS] [--size SIZE] [--filelimit FILELIMIT]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --dirname DIRNAME Please enter directory name --days DAYS Number of days last accessed --size SIZE File size in kilobytes --filelimit FILELIMIT specify number of files above which a directory is bigDir

Example: python3 FileChecker.py --dirname data --days 0 --size 450 --filelimit 4