Portable Python Utilities

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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)

which.py

Find a program in PATH and print full path to it.

Usage:

which.py program

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