One of the major benefits of getting exposed to Linux was coming across some fabulous tools for managing and manipulating files. Let it be a simple utility that could replace strings within hundreds of files within a path or find and delete files matching patterns, age etcetera was out of the box available on most of the Linux distributions. Windows Operating System lacks such tools out of the box & next possibility is to write own scripts, which is not very possible for many users.
“Purger” is a file shredding project that I devised few years ago, while we were still hosting our Oracle 11g R2 version on Windows for multiple custom business applications, that generated multiple log files. Today I am sharing a working version of the software with you!
This software can, recursively scan and list files that match the age specified by the user & delete them from the file system. I’ve a minimalistic help file (PDF) under the help section of the software, please make sure that you will read it before using the software.
I’ve tried my level best to ensure that the software doesn’t give the user surprises. Regardless, observe caution when you are using the same as the software is expected to “delete” or “purge” files from your system permanently. If you are not using the “Send to Recyclebin” option, you might end up using tools like Recuva to recover the files deleted!
Do let me know if you have comments.