delly

Delly: File Cleanup Tool

Delly is a command-line utility designed to help you efficiently clean up your file system by recursively deleting files with specific file extensions in a given directory. This tool is especially handy when you need to reclaim storage space by removing files matching certain criteria.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Example
• License

Installation

To use Delly, you'll need to have it installed on your system. You can do this by following these steps:

1 Install the binary into your GOBIN with go install:

go install github.com/bxffour/delly@latest

Now, Delly is ready to use on your system.

Usage

Delly is simple to use and takes two main parameters: file extension(s) to match and a directory to start the search from. Here's the basic usage:

delly -e <extensions> <directory>

• -e <extensions>: Specify the file extensions to match, separated by commas (e.g., "mp4,zip").
• <directory>: Provide the directory where Delly should begin its search for matching files.

Delly will then provide a list of matching files along with their sizes and ask for your confirmation before deleting them. Additionally, it reports the bytes saved per directory after the deletion process.

Example

Let's walk through a typical usage scenario. Suppose you want to delete all .mp4, ttf and .zip files from your ~/Downloads directory:

delly -e mp4,zip,ttf ~/Downloads

Delly will display a list of matching files, their sizes, and ask for your confirmation before proceeding with the deletion. After successfully deleting the files, it will report the bytes saved per directory.

Output:

FILE                                                                                  SIZE
----                                                                                  ----
/home/user/Downloads/go1.21.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz                                         67 MB
/home/user/Downloads/Cantarell.zip                                                       185 kB
/home/user/Downloads/Inter.zip                                                           3.6 MB
/home/user/Downloads/JetBrainsMono-2.304/fonts/variable/JetBrainsMono-Italic[wght].ttf   309 kB
/home/user/Downloads/JetBrainsMono-2.304/fonts/variable/JetBrainsMono[wght].ttf          303 kB
/home/user/Downloads/JetBrainsMono-2.304.zip                                             5.6 MB
/home/user/Downloads/bundleservice.zip                                                   12 MB
----                                                                                  ----
TOTAL                                                                                 89 MB

do you want to go ahead with deleting these files? [y/n]: y

DIRECTORY                                              OLDSIZE     NEWSIZE     BYTES SAVED
---------                                              -------     -------     -----------
/home/user/Downloads                                      332 MB      244 MB      88 MB
/home/user/Downloads/JetBrainsMono-2.304/fonts/variable   612 kB      0 B         612 kB

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Delly! If you find a bug, have an idea for an improvement, or want to add a new feature, please open an issue or create a pull request on the Delly GitHub repository.

License

Delly is open-source software licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this tool according to the terms of the license.