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by bArray 325 days ago
I would go further with this, essentially matching patterns of files in certain directories. Another use case for example is removing old log files from a directory.

In any case, I would have it as a user option to carry through the action, i.e. "the following is scheduled for deletion saving X disk space, do you wish to continue?".

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Yeah, a generic tool could be useful. Thanks for replying. It gave me some ideas!