removing the old networks

[maxinjapan]

Hi. I just realised that after 62k matches I had over 230Gb of old networks saved locally on my PC. I was wondering if you could implement a function to automatically remove the unused networks after a while to avoid taking up so much space.

[Vandertic]

You are right that this problem should be addressed, but currently it seems not an easy upgrade.
Maybe @amato-gianluca can have a look into this?

[l1t1]

you can write a bash script to remove old files

[Vandertic]

This bash line, launched from inside the networks/ directory should leave only the 32 most recent networks.
n=$(( $(ls -1 *.gz | wc -l) -32 )) ; if [[ ! $n -lt 0 ]] ; then rm $(ls -1rt *.gz | head -n$n) ; fi

I suggest to try before a "dry run" with
n=$(( $(ls -1 *.gz | wc -l) -32 )) ; if [[ ! $n -lt 0 ]] ; then echo rm $(ls -1rt *.gz | head -n$n) ; fi
just to check that nothing wrong is going to happen.

When the networks are 32 or less, nothing should happen, so this script can be launched automatically every few days to clean the directory.

[maxinjapan]

nice. thanks

[l1t1]

windows bat is also needed

[maxinjapan]

FWIW it works in windows too if you install Ubuntu from the Miscosoft Store