Beast cleaner is a simple shell script to find and delete stalled, not maintained by packages files on FreeBSD. The files are deleted one by one, thus it is possible to delete only selected ones. If you read this file on GitHub: please don't send pull requests here. All will be automatically closed. Any code propositions should go to the Fossil repository.
WARNING: The script is very simple and can produce false-positives results. It is strongly recommended to create a backup or snapshot before you start deleting files. Also, be sure to know what you are deleting. ;)
To delete stalled files, you will need to run the script with root privileges. They are not needed to just find the stalled files.
Put the beastcleaner.sh script when anywhere it will be accessible by the selected user.
Several options can be set in the script, mainly the paths and names of files created by the script. These settings are optional, by default, the script writes all files to /tmp directory. If you want to change it, please open the script with your favorite text editor and read the first lines of it, where the configuration section is. There is everything explained.
- To find only the stalled files, run the script without any arguments. For
example:
./beastcleaner.sh. It will print the list vialesscommand. - If you want to delete stalled files, you have to run the script as root
user with argument clean. For example:
sudo ./beastcleaner.sh clean. You will need to confirm each deletion of a file from the list.
The project is released under 3-Clause BSD license.
That's all for now, as usual, I have probably forgotten about something important ;)
Bartek thindil Jasicki
