node-scrub

Walk a directory tree and remove files not necessary in a production node environment.

WARNING: this program walks a directory tree and deletes files. Double check what you are doing before executing. The program's --dry-run option is true by default. It is highly advisable to use it in dry-run mode first.

Installation

npm install -g node-scrub

Usage

Typical usage is to run it with the target node_modules directory as the argument.

Executing in the node-scrub project root, will be something like:

$ node-scrub node_modules
------summary------
 (dry-run results)
total bytes: 65818 directories: 6 files: 26
deleted bytes: 35412 directories: 0 files: 20
percents: bytes 53.8 directories 0.0 files 76.9
elapsed time 11ms

Note that the option --dry-run is by default true and that's a good thing because if I accidentally executed it as follows it would delete files that I probably didn't want to delete.

$ node-scrub .
------summary------
 (dry-run results)
total bytes: 329447 directories: 54 files: 89
deleted bytes: 37157 directories: 0 files: 22
percents: bytes 11.3 directories 0.0 files 24.7
elapsed time 22ms

Command-line options

The first argument is the root of the directory tree to walk, looking for files and directories to delete.

• --dry-run - [true], use --dry-run false to delete files and directories.
• --details, -d - [false], show count and size for each match deleted.
• --verbose - [false], print every directory and file deleted.
• --very-verbose - [false], print every directory, file, and link traversed + verbose.

todos

• add command-line exclusions, for now you have to fiddle with defaults.js
• allow detailed listing of deletion filepaths by pattern-matched
• write tests (only manual tested at this point)