taylorcode / grunt-delete-sync

Syncs file deletion from one directory to another.

grunt-delete-sync

Syncs file deletion from one directory to another.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-delete-sync --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-delete-sync');

This task looks through the files defined in src, if they do not exist in the syncWith directory, they are removed.

Example:

delete_sync: {
  dist: {
	cwd: 'targetDir',
	src: ['**', '!**/*.css'],
	syncWith: 'src'
  }
},

grunt-delete-sync's Issues

Delete files in outide folder. Force with you

Now we can't sync files outside workind directory. Add options and force:

grunt.registerMultiTask('delete_sync', 'Synchronize file deletion between two directories.', function() {
        var options = this.options();
        this.files.map(function(file) {
            file.src.map(function (val) {
                var targetFileName = file.cwd + '/' + val;
                if(grunt.file.isFile(targetFileName) && !grunt.file.exists(file.syncWith + '/' + val)) {
                    grunt.log.writeln('Deleting file ' + targetFileName);
                    grunt.file.delete(targetFileName, options);
                }
            });
        });

    });

loremIpsum: {
      options : {
             force : true
      },
      cwd: '../../../web/loremIpsum',
      src: ['**/*'],
      syncWith: 'dist/loremIpsum'
},

npm version

Could you update the version and publish it using npm please ?

Delete subfolders?

Works great! Can you have it remove subfolders that have been deleted under the syncWith folder?