rskill is a clone of npkill, written in Rust for study purposes. It allows you to quickly find and delete node_modules directories to free up disk space. While it tries to follow the same CLI API as npkill, it does not implement all of it's features. User discretion is advised when deleting directories.

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Features

• 🚀 Fast: Slightly faster than the original npkill (though not streamed directly to the terminal and some features are missing such as automatic updates, bg color customization etc.).
• 🎯 Same CLI API: Supports the same command-line flags as npkill for familiarity.
• 🛠 Study Project: Written in Rust as a learning exercise.

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Options

ARGUMENT	DESCRIPTION
-d, --directory	Set the directory from which to begin searching. By default, starting-point is .
-D, --delete-all	Automatically delete all node_modules folders that are found. Suggested to be used together with -x.
-E, --exclude	Exclude directories from search (directory list must be inside double quotes "", each directory separated by ',' ) Example: "ignore1, ignore2"
-f, --full	Start searching from the home of the user (example: "/home/user" in linux)
--gb	Show folders in Gigabytes instead of Megabytes.
-h, --help, ?	Show this help page and exit
-s, --sort	Sort results by: size, path or last-mod
-t, --target	Specify the name of the directories you want to search (by default, is node_modules)
-x, --exclude-hidden-directories	Exclude hidden directories ("dot" directories) from search.
-V, --version	Show rskill version

Installation

You can install rskill via Cargo:

cargo install rskill

or download the latest release from Releases and add the binary to your system's PATH.

wget https://github.com/xsadia/rskill/releases/download/v0.1.0/rskill-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf rskill-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo mv rskill /usr/local/bin

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by npkill.