Ephemeral Tools

[different-name]

Implement commands that perform the following:

• List ephemeral files in the current user's home directory
• List ephemeral files at the root level
• List files in persisted directories that are not linked or mounted elsewhere

For listing ephemeral files - persisted files/directories should be parsed from the impermanence config to be ignored when searching for ephemeral files, along with a list of ephemeral directories to manually exclude (directories known & desired to be ephemeral)

The excluded directories should be what's currently persisted by the current system, so it isn't viable to read the config from $FLAKE, it's also not viable to use an environmental variable to list the excluded directories, as this wouldn't update until the user logs back in. Could generate the script as part of building the configuration, but I can't think of a clean way to do this

Blocked until I can figure out a clean way to:

• Package the script
• Communicate the directories that should be excluded to the script

[different-name]

Might be best to do something like this, where a script is generated using writeShellApplication with the excluded paths

users.users.different.packages = [
  (pkgs.writeShellApplication {
    text = "";
    name = "ephtools";
  })
];

[different-name]

Could add an option to search from a directory, instead of having separate commands for root and home directories

[different-name]

Usage: ephtools <command> [search paths...]

Commands:
  new   - List new files & directories that are not yet persisted
  stray - List stray files & directories that are in persistent storage, but are not in the persistence config

Arguments:
  search paths - Override the search directories with one or more absolute paths

Example:

$ ephtools new /home/different
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/InstallTime20240812083845
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/key4.db
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/webappsstore.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/protections.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/cookies.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/SiteSecurityServiceState.bin
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/times.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/bounce-tracking-protection.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/compatibility.ini
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/favicons.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/default/https+++www.mozilla.org/ls/usage
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/default/https+++www.mozilla.org/ls/data.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/default/https+++www.mozilla.org/.metadata-v2
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/ls-archive.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/1451318868ntouromlalnodry--epcr.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/1451318868ntouromlalnodry--epcr.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2823318777ntouromlalnodry--naod.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/1657114595AmcateirvtiSty.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3561288849sdhlie.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2918063365piupsah.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2918063365piupsah.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2823318777ntouromlalnodry--naod.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3561288849sdhlie.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/1657114595AmcateirvtiSty.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage/permanent/chrome/.metadata-v2
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/pkcs11.txt
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/cert9.db
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/shield-preference-experiments.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/content-prefs.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/prefs.js
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/storage.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/favicons.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/.parentlock
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/search.json.mozlz4
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/extensions.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/cookies.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/glean/db/data.safe.bin
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/glean/events/prototype-no-code-events
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/glean/events/pageload
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/glean/events/events
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/glean/events/background-update
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/datareporting/state.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/formhistory.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/permissions.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/AlternateServices.bin
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/containers.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/webappsstore.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/addons.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/addonStartup.json.lz4
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/extension-preferences.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/handlers.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/places.sqlite
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/places.sqlite-wal
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/sessionCheckpoints.json
/home/different/.mozilla/firefox/zplh5wi6.default/ExperimentStoreData.json
/home/different/.config/dconf/user
/home/different/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
/home/different/.config/pulse/cookie
/home/different/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar.xml
/home/different/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/savedata/76561198836163955/profile.bin
/home/different/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/savedata/76561198836163955/steam_autocloud.vdf
/home/different/.local/share/nix/repl-history
/home/different/.local/share/mimeapps.list
/home/different/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
/home/different/.local/state/lesshst