b-jure / purge

cli tool for purging (removing) nested files

About

Purge is a simple cli tool that recursively purges files from directories or directories themselves from other directories. It is simple because it is a single C source file under 200 lines compliant with C99 standard.

Example of usage

Best way to explain how purge works is by showing few examples.

This is a file hierarchy before running purge:

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This command line

./purge . goner1

or

./purge -f . goner1

will result in this file hierarchy:

Additionally running the program with these arguments:

./purge -d . deletethis

will result in this file hierarchy:

If some things are unclear please just run purge without arguments, and check the usage there, cba explaining any further.

Build

clone the repository and run:

make

If you wish to build binary with debug symbols enabled then run:

make debug

if you wish to have more control on how the binary builds just edit the single Makefile to your liking.

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PKGBUILD/AUR

In case you are running Arch-based Linux distribution there is also PKGBUILD provided, build and install like this:

makepkg
pacman -U {package}.pkg.tar.zst

make sure to replace {package} with the actual package name.

Or you can build and install using pamac or yay because I am already hosting an AUR package, simply run this in your terminal:

pamac build purge

or

yay -S purge