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33 lines
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Markdown
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title: "Bash script: delete unused images"
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slug: /image-deletion-bash-script/
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date: 2023-04-16
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tags: ["log", "bash"]
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---
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When I'm working on my technical notes I often insert images, diagrams,
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screenshots etc. Often, I end up creating multiple images that I end up not
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using. I don't like commiting dead bytes to the repo so I wrote a short script
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that reads each file in the image directory and looks to see if it is referenced
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in any Markdown files. If it isn't, the image is deleted.
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```bash
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find /home/thomas/repos/eolas/_img -type f | while read filename; do
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rg "${filename##*/}" ../ --type markdown >/dev/null 2>&1
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if [ "$?" -eq 1 ]; then
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echo "Deleted unused image: ${filename##*/}"
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rm $filename
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fi
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done
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```
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Example:
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```sh
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./clean_image_directory.sh
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Deleted unused image: multiplication_03.gif
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Deleted unused image: Pasted_image_20220319174839.png
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Deleted unused image: multiplication_04.gif
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Deleted unused image: multiplication_02.gif
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```
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