Planet Argon - Tidy up your Rails development/test.log files and brew cleanup

argonista-disk-space-reclaimer.sh

#!/bin/sh
#  A little shell script to help you reclaim disk space by doing the
#  following things on your Mac OS development machine.
# * Empty all of your local development.log files
# * Empty all of your local test.log files
# * Removes unused Homebrew packages
# Install:
#     * Save this to ~/bin/argonista-disk-space-reclaimer.sh
#     * Run % chmod +x ~/bin/argonista-disk-space-reclaimer.sh
# Usage:
# Within a directory where all of your apps are nested, run:
#     % cd ~/projects
#     % ~/bin/argonista-disk-space-reclaimer.sh


echo "\n== 🔬 Tracking down all of your local dev/test log files =="

LOGFILES=`find .  -type f -name 'development.log' -o -name 'test.log'`

for logfile in $LOGFILES; do
  du -kh $logfile;
done

echo "\n\n== 🧹  Sweeping up your local dev/test log files =="

for logfile in $LOGFILES; do
  cat /dev/null > $logfile;
  echo "✅  Cleaned: $logfile"
done

echo "\n\n== 🍺  Running Homebrew's cleanup tool on unused packages =="
brew cleanup

echo "\n\n== 🎈 ...and now our machine is floating, again ==\n\n"