Tag: path.py

Python clean up old files


Was learning Python and wrote this script to clean up files.  It’s not awesome.  Has no error handling for when the target file is already open.  Just kinda barfs when that happens.  So it needs work.  This was written in Python 3.

#This script uses a library called path.py.  Get it from here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py
#Download the Python Wheel file.  At this writing, it is called path.py-8.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.  
#Install using the command: pip install <name of wheel file>.
#You must have Python installed first.  Been a while since I installed it, but here is the official place to 
#get it from: https://www.python.org/downloads/
#Once you have everything installed and the script works, use Windows Task Scheduler to run it, so you don't forget.

import timefrom 
path import path

def main():  
  # Because in python, the \ is an escape character, we need to use two of them in directory specifications  
  paths = ["c:\\jboss\\jboss-eap-5.1\\jboss-as\\server\\default\\tmp","c:\\jboss\\jboss-eap-5.1\\jboss-as\\server\\default\\log"]  
  DAYS = 7  
  time_in_seconds = time.time() - (DAYS * 24 * 60 * 60)  
  removed = 0  
  for p in paths:    
    print (p)    
    d = path(p)      

    for f in d.walk():      
      if f.mtime <= time_in_seconds:        
        print ("Deleting " + f.basename())        
        removed += 1     
  print ("Removed " + str(removed) + " files.")
if __name__ == "__main__":