lru-cache

ipc

daemon => do the lru filtering job

client => ask daemon and output result

config example:

[[directory]]
path = "/home/user/.cargo/target"
tag = "rust_target"

[[directory]]
path = "/home/user/.cache"
tag = "cache_dir"

client example:

lru -rs 1GB | tr '\0' '\n' | less

lru -rs 1GB | xargs -0 rm -vf

usages:

daemon:

usage: lru-daemon [-h] [-c config] [-s socket]
Command Summary:
        -c              config path
        -h              prints this help message
        -s              socket path

client:

usage: lru [-hr] [-d daemon] [-p path] [-s size] [-t tag]
Command Summary:
        -d              daemon socket path
        -h              prints this help message
        -p              a directory path to calculate evictation, no input equals all.
        -r              output raw data, NUL terminated string slice.
        -s              clean until below the given limit, e.g. 1MiB
        -t              a tag of configured directory tag, behavior same as path

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