Housekeeper

Housekeeper helps with keeping directories clean. It takes content that is older than a specified age and either deletes or archives it.

$ housekeeper -h

Usage: housekeeper [options]
    -a, --action ACTION              Action (can be archive or delete)
    -d, --dir DIRNAME                Directory to cleanup
    -m, --age AGE                    The minimum mtime age in seconds of contents to be cleaned up

In order to have only contents in your ~/Downloads directory, which are newer than 1 day, setup the following cronjob:

* * * * * housekeeper --dir $HOME/Downloads --age 86400 --action archive

And to keep only files in your ~/Downloads/archive directory, which are newer than 5 days, setup the following cronjob:

* * * * * housekeeper --dir $HOME/Downloads/archive --age 432000 --action delete

Contents can be ignored by putting a file called .housekeeper_ignore with an fnmatch pattern, for example

myfile.*
**.rb

Install it with bundler

$ gem install housekeeper

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/romanlehnert/housekeeper.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.