This program is used to cleanup any folder that you specify but is used here primarily to cleanup a profile in Windows. The purpose of this program to to clean out a profile that may be located in a lab setting (such as at a university). The primary reason that this program was written was that it is impossible to log off of a computer if one's profile is too large.
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def main(path=''):
if len(sys.argv) == 1 and len(path) != 0:
try:
delete(path)
except:
print 'ERROR: Internal Path'
else:
try:
delete(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
except:
print os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), '<directory>'
def delete(path):
for name in os.listdir(path):
path_name = os.path.join(path, name)
try:
if os.path.isdir(path_name):
delete(path_name)
os.rmdir(path_name)
elif os.path.isfile(path_name):
os.remove(path_name)
except:
print 'ERROR:', path_name
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(r'C:\Documents and Settings\SCHAP472')
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Note: delete() is not supposed to remove the path that it was given.
Tags: programs
Um...
Windows. Most of the code that I write is for Windows. :)