Directory Cleaner

Clean your directories in a simple manner

author: Wiktor Zawadzki
github: https://github.com/wiktoz/dir-cleaner

Features

• Clean temporary files
• Clean empty files
• Remove duplicate files by their content
• Detect and fix unusual and dangerous permissions
• Rename files containing dangerous characters in their filenames
• Works in a recursive way, checking all nested directories

Usage

./dir_cleaner.sh [-r] [-tedpnfm] [-h] [dir1 dir2 ...]

Flags

-h help - prints help

-r recursive - performs check on specified directories and all nested

-t remove temp files - automatically removes all temp files

-e remove empty files - automatically removes all empty files

-d remove duplicates - automatically removes all duplicate files

-p change permissions - replace all dangerous or unusual permissions with their safe replacement

-n change names - replace dangerous characters in filenames with a safe substitute

-f force - do not ask user for permission to perform actions

-m move - move all files to top parent directory, remove empty subdirectories

Config

File .clean_files is a configuration file where user can specify:

• temp_extensions - file extensions that indicate file is temporary
  default ("*.tmp" "*~")

• unusual_permissions - permissions that are considered unusual or dangerous
  default ("rwxrwxrwx" "---rwxrwx" "---r--r--" "---rw-rw-" "r--rwxrwx" "rw-rwxrwx" "--x--x--x")

• dangerous_chars - characters that are dangerous and should be replaced
  default ':\;*?$#|\\/'"'"

• default_substitute - character to replace dangerous characters with
  default "_"

• default_permissions - safe permissions to replace dangerous permissions with
  default "rw-r--r--"