https://github.com/jdevera/purehome

Tells you (and ashames you) when your home directory is not clean
https://github.com/jdevera/purehome

monitoring python reminder shell

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Tells you (and ashames you) when your home directory is not clean

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jdevera/purehome
• Owner: jdevera
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-04-27T22:23:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-04-16T15:42:47.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T06:48:39.700Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: monitoring, python, reminder, shell
• Language: Python
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• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Purehome: Watching out for a clean home

Inspired by [Gina Trapani's 6 folders

strategy](http://lifehacker.com/156196/geek-to-live--organizing-my-documents),

I have, for years now, strived to keep my home directory to 6 folders under

which everything is organised. I have gone one step further and define, for

myself, what goes in the next level inside those six, but that's another story.

Here we care only about the topmost home directory level.

Just like on Windows it was always just a little too convenient to save

everything to the desktop when I didn't know where to save something, the root

of the home directory seems to be equivalent place in Linux, a place chosen

even by many programs, to dump all sorts of random rubbish.

I say **no** to this, and to help keep my home tidy, I use `purehome`.

But `purehome` does not clean my home for me, no, it does not. Purehome works by

making me ashamed of having a dirty home, by giving me a constant reminder that

I've let myself slip. Purehome gets called in my shell init script, so when I

open a new shell, this is the greeting I get:

     ____________________________________________________________

    /                                                            \

    |  _  _                 _     __      _____  ___  _  _  ___  |

    | | || |___ _ __  ___  (_)___ \ \    / / _ \/ _ \| \| |/ __| |

    | | __ / _ \ '  \/ -_) | (_-<  \ \/\/ /|   / (_) | .` | (_ | |

    | |_||_\___/_|_|_\___| |_/__/   \_/\_/ |_|_\\___/|_|\_|\___| |

    |                                                            |

    | Superfluous contents:                                      |

    |  * this-file-should-not-be-here                            |

    \  * quick-thing-i-saved-in-my-homedir                       /

     ------------------------------------------------------------

            \   ^__^

             \  (oo)\_______

                (__)\       )\/\

                    ||----w |

                    ||     ||

Or, in good days, this:

    6 days with a clean home directory

## Okay, I want it!

Of course you do! Just clone the repository or download the `purehome` script

alone, then call it from your shell init script to have the constant reminder.

Oh, yes, you will only see the cow if you have `cowsay` installed, but then

again, why wouldn't you!

By default, these are the expected directories, no more, no less:

   * backup

   * comms

   * devel

   * doc

   * media

   * other

Of course your directories don't have to be those, just write your expected

list, one name per line in a file called `~/.config/purehome/expected` or, to

be sure, run

    purehome --debug

And that will tell you where `purehome` expects its config to be.

## License

MIT