Remove(rm) by Extension(ext)

Assume a situation when you have to delete a lot of files of certain extension recursively from hundreds of folder. This program makes that task very easy.

Requirements

• Python 3

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/fhsinchy/rmbyext.git#egg=rmbyext
pip freeze

Output –

rmbyext==1.0.0

Usage

Once you have installed the package it should be available everywhere in your system. The generic command for executing this script is

rmbyext <file extension>

or in case of multiple extensions

rmbyext <file extension> <file extension>

Lets say you want to delete all the PDF files from a directory. You simply put this script on that directory and execute

rmbyext pdf

The script will look for all PDF files recursively and delete all of them. As stated above you can also pass multiple extensions separated by space

rmbyext pdf txt

This command will delete all PDF and TXT files.

List of the deleted files will be shown on the console as well as written inside delete_log.log file in the same directory.