PurgePro

PurgePro streamlines file cleanup, effortlessly removing obsolete files and optimizing storage space.

Project requirements

In the given directory, if you find files more than given size (e.g 5MB) or files older than given days (e.g. 2 days or 1 hour) then compress those files and move in archive folder.

Steps to create a script

• Provide the path of directory to cleanup files -> User should provide path
• Check if the directory is present or not
• Create archive folder if not already present
• Find all the files with size more than given size
• Compress each file
• Move the compressed files in archive folder
• Ask if user want to delete archived files permanently and perform operation as per response
• (InProgress) Make a cron job to run the script at given time -> User should provide specific time

How to use PurgePro

• Clone this repository on local machine
• Make the script executable - chmod +x purge.sh
• Execute the script - ./purge.sh and hit enter

Where to add issues

• Add issues here to improve the PurgePro tool.