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12-26-2012

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I think the best & efficient approach to handle this task is to create a cleanup rule file. A file with rules defined to maintain each directory.

To give you an idea, here I am having a rule file with following data:-

Directory - Directory to maintain
Days - Days to keep the files
Move - Move Flag (If set to 1 then execute mv in find command)
Remove - Remove Flag (If set to 1 then execute rm in find command)
Destination - Destination directory to move if Move Flag is set.

Code:

# --------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Directory |   Days    |       Move    |       Remove  | Destination   #
# --------------------------------------------------------------------- #
path1   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path2
path2   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path4
path3   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path5
path4   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path6
path5   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path7
path6   |   90          |       1       |       0       |   path8
path7   |   180         |       0       |       1       |   NA
path7   |   180         |       0       |       1       |   NA
path9   |   180         |       0       |       1       |   NA
# --------------------------------------------------------------------- #

Now you just have to write a script to read data from this pipe delimited file and run find command for each rule. It will be easy and simple if you want to modify or add a new rule because you don't have to change the code but just simply change the rule file. I hope this helps.

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GIT-CLEAN(1)							    Git Manual							      GIT-CLEAN(1)

NAME

       git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree

SYNOPSIS

       git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...

DESCRIPTION

       Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory.

       Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the -x option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example,
       be useful to remove all build products.

       If any optional <path>... arguments are given, only those paths are affected.

OPTIONS

       -d
	   Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. If an untracked directory is managed by a different Git repository, it is
	   not removed by default. Use -f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory.

       -f, --force
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       -n, --dry-run
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	   given with -e options. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in conjunction
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       -X
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