ngm-remove 0.0.6

Remove files/folders. Not drop-in replacement for rm, though

Remove

• removes files
• prints out filepath
• logs filepath to syslog
• optionally, logs to sqlite database

Motivation

• being able to clean up folders deep inside tree: remove **/node_nodules
• we could do this via normal rm -rf **/node_nodules, however we would not see what entries being removed
• rm command has -v option to display removed entry. And we could use rm -frv **/node_modules. But rm would log each file in this case. For a large node_modules - the output is overwhelming. I just need to see which node_modules being removed and keep the output log readable.
• we could use find and xargs - but we will end up with rather longer command for a trivial task

Example

pip install ngm-remove

cd projects

remove **/node_nodules

journalctl -t remove -r

Use in scripts

• In scripts, you might need to use shopt -s globstar to enable ** globs

shopt -s globstar # feature available since bash 4.0, released in 2009
remove **/node_modules