DirCleaner

DirCleaner is a simple-to-use utility to automatically remove stale or temporary files from specified directories

Usage

in order to use DirCleaner put the following into your config.exs:

config :dir_cleaner, DirCleaner,
  # set the paths of the directories where you want stale files removed,
  # defaults to []
  directories: ["/tmp/dir1", "/tmp/dir2"],

  # optional - sets the interval on how often dir_cleaner looks
  # for files older than max_age and removes them.
  # defaults to 10 minutes
  # value has to be given in milliseconds
  interval: :timer.minutes(5),

  # optional - sets the max age value of the files,
  # defaults to 10 minutes
  # value has to be given in milliseconds
  max_age: :timer.minutes(5)

These values are used at compile time. That means that if you change these values and recompile mix will complain during (re)compilation.

You can overcome the mix compile warning by issuing

mix deps.compile dir_cleaner --force

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding dir_cleaner to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:dir_cleaner, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end