Remove files older than set number of days

A script designed as helper for this yaml

Usage

Script can be either downloaded using wget/curl or other tools during run commands in a github workflow. Download link here

run: curl -LJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adrianmaciuc/rm_old_folders/main/rm_old_folders.py

Or you can put the the rm_old_folders.py file in the root of your repo. Then access it inside your steps

run: python rm_old_folders.py --n-days 3 --folder-name .

Note
Remember to install python first in your machine before running the script. You can easily use actions/setup-python@v4

Params

The script takes mandatory two arguments: --n-days - Number of days to determine which folders to delete.

• Example: --n-days 3 will delete all folders older than 3 days

--folder-name - Folder where the reports are, if the reports are at root, then type . (dot)

• Example: --folder-name . will delete all folders from root of the repo
• Example2: --folder-name reports will delete all folders from reports directory of your repo

Important details about the script logic

• Script searches for folders using this regex r'^\d{8}_\d{6}Z$' which will match with this timestamp format %Y%m%d_%H%M%SZ
• Good Example: 20231129_000203Z
• Bad Examples: that will be ignored: whatever_text 02528502520852 reports 20231129_000203Z

Note
Remember it must match the exact format `%Y%m%d_%H%M%SZ`` start till end, length included. For all other scenarios a message will be printed in the console that folder/file is skipped