https://github.com/ozum/rm-up-cli
Delete files or empty directories and their empty parents from bottom to up.
https://github.com/ozum/rm-up-cli
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Delete files or empty directories and their empty parents from bottom to up.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ozum/rm-up-cli
- Owner: ozum
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-01-21T16:02:44.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-02-11T11:40:56.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T23:34:58.643Z (7 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 128 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# rm-up-cli
Delete files or empty directories and their empty parents from bottom to up.
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Synopsis](#synopsis)
- [Details](#details)
- [Related](#related)
# Installation
```sh
$ npm install -g rm-up
```
# Synopsis
Install globally to access rm-up from everywhere.
```sh
$ rm-up generated/util/math
```
```sh
$ rm-up generated/util/math generated/util/helper --cwd /path/to/project
```
```sh
$ rm-up --help
```
# Details
Deletes files or empty directories and their empty parents from bottom to up. First deletes given files or directories, then checks whether their parent directories are empty and deletes them if empty. Then checks parent's parents and so on.
It's direction is reverse of rm -rf or deltree command.
Ignores system junk files such as .DS_Store and Thumbs.db.
```
USAGE
$ rm-up [options] ...
ARGUMENTS
... (optional) Files or directories to delete and search their empty parent directories up. If not given, cwd is used.
OPTIONS
-c --cwd Set the current working directory for relative paths.
-f --force Ignore errors if paths do not exist.
-s --stop Path to stop searching empty directories up. 'stop' dir is excluded and not deleted.
-d --dry Dry run without deleting any files.
-l --log Show logging.
-v --verbose Show extra infromation.
--deleteInitial Delete target path (bottom directory) even it is non-empty directory. For example even if 'c' directory of 'a/b/c' has some files in it, 'c' will be deleted.
--help Show help.
--version Show version.
EXAMPLES
$ rm-up --stop . --cwd /path/to/project generated/lib/math generated/util/helper
Using above command deletes following directories if they are empty:
/path/to/project/generated/lib/math
/path/to/project/generated/lib
/path/to/project/generated
/path/to/project/generated/util/helper
/path/to/project/generated/util
/path/to/project/generated
```
Please see [rm-up](https://github.com/ozum/rm-up) for details.
# Related
- [rm-up](https://github.com/ozum/rm-up): API for this CLI.