DIRS_CLEANER(8)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay so bestie, this is dirs_cleaner(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and it's literally the utility that can remove contents of directories. That's the whole name-and-purpose moment. Periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dirs_cleaner path ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: the dirs_cleaner utility recursively deletes the entire contents of each directory argument, while the directories themselves are not deleted. Slay, but make it "contents only." 💖

A cleaned directory may be re-created in the process of cleaning; if so, it gets a new inode number. Not me warning you about the inode glow-up — it's just what happens. 🙈

Recursive traversals do not cross mount points. No mount-point hopping, bestie. 🚫🦋

Each directory is identified directly or via a symbolic link. Simple as that. 💫

When it's all done, dirs_cleaner exits with one of the following values:

• 0 — each input directory was successfully cleaned ✅
• >0 — an error occurred 😭

Okay that's the whole page, bestie! This icon was brought to you by Debian, dated February 8, 2021 — mwah 💋👑