old image previews cleaner script

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.local/bin/previewclean b/.local/bin/previewclean
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+++ b/.local/bin/previewclean
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+threshold="200000" # 200 MB
+previewdir="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/lf"
+
+# Check if the total size of the preview directory exceeds the threshold
+# and remove the last viewed file until it doesn't
+while [ "$(du -s "$previewdir" | cut -f1)" -gt "$threshold" ]; do
+	rm -f "$(find "$previewdir" -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort | head -n1 | cut -d' ' -f2)"
+done