amlanjsarmah / dirkill

A simple python application to quickly traverse the file system from a supplied path and easily deleting folders with common name like "node_modules".

dirkill

A simple python application to quickly traverse the file system from a supplied path and easily deleting folders with common name like "node_modules".

Uses

Javascript developers find their hard drives full because each day they get a new million dollar app idea and then then go on downlading 1000 of JS files which are stores in the "node_modules" folder and then they compleately forget about the project and find their drive full because of this folders .

Not only JS devs but other devs too download heavy libraries in various places on their drive and later they have to clean it manually this little utility can help do it just in a few clicks .

Dependencies

The application is coded with python and PySimpleGUI version 4.57.0 is used as a dependecy .

To install PySimpleGUI in Windows

pip install PySimpleGUI

For Mac or Linux

pip3 install PySimpleGUI

Screenshots

Installation

The process of installation is very simple just install or clone the project files navigate to the location where the directory is stored and go to the src folder and execute dirkill.py by typing.

For Windows

python dirkill.py

For Mac and Linux

python3 dirkill.py

PS : PySimpleGUI must be installed.