deca-delete

🗑️ deca-delete

A Node.js CLI tool for recursively deleting files with a specific file suffix across directories. 🗂️🔍

📦 Installation

Install globally using npm:

npm install -g deca-delete

Or as a development dependency in your project:

npm install --save-dev deca-delete

🚀 Usage

CLI Usage

deca-delete <rootDirectory> <fileSuffix>

Examples:

Delete all JavaScript test files: 🧪

deca-delete ./src .test.js

Delete all text files: 📄

deca-delete /path/to/project .txt

Programmatic Usage 💻

const { deleteFilesBySuffix } = require('deca-delete');

deleteFilesBySuffix('/path/to/directory', '.js');

✨ Features

• 🔄 Recursively search and delete files with a specific suffix
• 🖥️ Simple CLI interface
• 🛡️ Error handling for directory and file operations
• 📝 Detailed console logging

🛠️ Options

• rootDir: The root directory to start searching
• suffix: The file suffix to match (must start with a '.')

⚠️ Safety Notes

⚠️ Caution: This tool permanently deletes files. Always double-check your directory and suffix before running. 🚨

🐛 Error Handling

• Invalid directories will produce an error message
• Files that cannot be deleted will log an error without stopping the entire process

📄 License

MIT

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository. 🌟