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https://github.com/echo-devim/fudel
Schedule the deletion of your files and directories for the next days
https://github.com/echo-devim/fudel
cli cpp17 file-delete-utility file-deletion gtkmm scheduled-tasks
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Schedule the deletion of your files and directories for the next days
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/echo-devim/fudel
- Owner: echo-devim
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-06-24T06:38:35.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-07-14T07:50:43.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-30T12:11:56.702Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: cli, cpp17, file-delete-utility, file-deletion, gtkmm, scheduled-tasks
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 81.1 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: License.txt
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README
# Future Deletion
Future Deletion (fudel) is a tool to schedule the deletion of files and directories.
This can be useful to keep your files on your system for a certain number of days without have to worry to periodically clean up the system.
The tool is a command-line tool with a minimal GUI support and notification system.
The project is based on [sqlite_modern_cpp](https://github.com/SqliteModernCpp/sqlite_modern_cpp) wrapper library.
## Prerequisites
You need to install the following libraries to compile the project:
* libnotify
* gtkmm-3.0
* C++17 compliant compiler
* libsqlite3
## Usage
Show the help menu:
```
$ ./fudel -h
Future Deletion Program, delete files in the next days
Usage:
Fudel [OPTION...]
-h, --help Show this help
-g, --gui Add gui support
-s, --show Show files in the database (output in JSON format)
-c, --check Check and remove aged files
-n, --new arg Add a new file that will be deleted after the specified
lifetime (-a)
-a, --age arg Set the time to wait for the new file until the
deletion
-p, --postpone arg Increase lifetime of the specified file
-r, --remove arg Remove a file from the database (not from the disk)
```
The first time you run the tool, it'll create a local database file (called `files.db`) in the same path of the executable.
Add a new file to the database:
```
$ ./fudel -n /tmp/test.txt -a 10
```
In this way, we added the entry `/tmp/test.txt` in the database with associated its lifetime `10`.
Show the database content with the following command:
```
$ ./fudel -s
ID:14,AGE:1,PATH:/tmp/a.txt
ID:15,AGE:10,PATH:/tmp/test.txt
ID:16,AGE:1,PATH:/tmp/test2.txt
```
**Every time** you invoke `--check` parameter, fudel iterates over all the entries in the database decreasing the age. When the age is equal to 0, the file/directory is deleted.
Thus, if you schedule a crontab job each day to run `./fudel -c`, in this case this means that `age` are the days left before the deletion.
If you set the `--gui` option, when used in combination with `-n` and `-p`, it will show a GTK prompt where to insert the age.
The usage is intended to be easier integrated into other tools (e.g. a file manager).
For example, considering Thunar, you can set a custom action executing: `./fudel -n '%f' -g`.