Portable Python Utilities¶
- Installation using pip
- Installation from sources
- News
- Version 0.8.0 (2021-09-24)
- Version 0.7.0 (2019-02-01)
- Version 0.6.1 (2017-12-15)
- Version 0.6.0 (2017-12-13)
- Version 0.5.0 (2017-07-09)
- Version 0.4.0 (2017-06-04)
- Version 0.3.2 (2017-05-01)
- Version 0.3.1 (2017-04-30)
- Version 0.3.0 (2017-04-30)
- Version 0.2.0 (2017-04-30)
- 0.1.0 (2017-04-16)
- 0.0.1 (2017-04-16)
Command line¶
cmp.py¶
Compare two files.
Usage:
cmp.py [-i] [-s --silent --quiet] file1 file2
Options:
-i, --inhibit-progress-bar
inhibit progress bar
-s, --silent, --quiet
be silent (implied -i)
remove-old-files.py¶
Remove old files. It’s a portable replacement for find start_dir -type f -mtime +31 -delete.
Usage:
remove-old-files.py [-e] -o days start_dir
Options:
-e, --empty-dirs
remove empty directories
-o days, --older days
remove files older than this number of days;
this is a required option
rm.py¶
Remove files or directories. Ask interactively to remove read-only files or directories.
Usage:
rm.py [-r] [-f] name1 [name2...]
Options:
-r, --recursive
recursively remove directories
-f', --force
force (ignore non-existing files and errors,
remote read-only files and non-empty directories)