Description

This cookbook creates a cleanup resource to handle the cleanup of arbitrary paths based on number of files or last modified dates.

Attributes

• name - String representing a path glob so wildcards are totally fine.
• dry_run - true/false Defaults to false. If true will disable actual file operations.`
• files - true/false Defaults to true. If false will ignore files during cleanup.
• directories - true/false Defaults to true. If false will ignore directories during cleanup.
• sort_by - :atime/:ctime/:mtime Defaults to :mtime. Sort the files to be deleted by their (a)ccess, (c)reate or (m)odified time.

keep_last and older_than are mutally exclusive since I can't think of any way combining them makes sense.

• keep_last - Takes an integer. Will keep that many files starting from the most recent.
• older_than - Takes a hash that looks like {:time_increment => time_quantity}. Increments can be one of [:minutes, :hours, :days, :weeks] (months are hard).

Usage

Include the cookbook then just call the cleanup resource from your recipe like this:

Keep the most recent 5 files

cleanup "/your/path/here/*" do
  keep_last 5
end

Delete files older than 1 week

cleanup "/your/path/here/*" do
  older_than :weeks => 1
end