Add recursive deletion support

README.md

@@ -3,28 +3,29 @@
 ## clean-backups.py
 
 Tool to cleanup backup directory with daily, weekly and monthly backups.
-This tool removes **everything** in the specified directory (not recursively) except files, containing timestamps in the filename that can identified by this tool as fresh backups.
+This tool removes **everything** in the specified directory (not recursively by default) except files, containing timestamps in the filename that can identified by this tool as fresh backups.
 
 By default, this tool keeps last 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups (4 last monday backups) and 3 monthly backups (1st day of last 3 months). You can redefine this by command line parameters.
 
 This tool expects timestamps like this: 20220531 (May 31, 2022), but of course, you can redefine this.
 
 ```text
-usage: clean-backups.py [-h] [-d N] [-w N] [-m N] [-f] PATH
+usage: clean-backups.py [-h] [-d N] [-w N] [-m N] [-f] [-r] [-t FORMAT] PATH
 
 Cleanup old backups
 
 positional arguments:
-  PATH               directory path
+  PATH                  directory path
 
 optional arguments:
-  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
+  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
-  -d N, --daily N    keep N daily backups, default: 7
+  -d N, --daily N       keep N daily backups, default: 7
-  -w N, --weekly N   keep N weekly backups, default: 4
+  -w N, --weekly N      keep N weekly backups, default: 4
-  -m N, --monthly N  keep N monthly backups, default: 3
+  -m N, --monthly N     keep N monthly backups, default: 3
-  -f, --force        suppress remove confirmation
+  -f, --force           suppress remove confirmation
+  -r, --recursive       remove files recursively
   -t FORMAT, --timestamp-format FORMAT
-                     format of timestamp, default: %Y%m%d
+                        format of timestamp, default: %Y%m%d
 ```
 
 For a complete timestamp format description, see the python strftime() documentation: <https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior>

clean-backups.py

@@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ parser.add_argument(
     action="store_true",
     help="suppress remove confirmation"
 )
+# force removal
+parser.add_argument(
+    "-r", "--recursive",
+    action="store_true",
+    help="remove files recursively"
+)
 # timestamp format
 parser.add_argument(
     "-t",
@@ -190,22 +196,26 @@ args = parser.parse_args()
 daily = args.daily
 weekly = args.weekly
 monthly = args.monthly
+recursive = args.recursive
 force = args.force
 directory = args.path[0]
 timestamp_format = args.timestamp_format
 
+#
 # File processing
+#
+
+# Create BackupFile object with retention settings
 files = BackupFile(
     retention_daily=daily,
     retention_weekly=weekly,
     retention_monthly=monthly,
     dateformat=timestamp_format
 )
-# Generate file list with full paths
+# Walk through subdirectory tree
-paths = [
+for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(directory):
-    os.path.join(directory, f) for f in os.listdir(directory)
+    for filename in filenames:
-    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(directory, f))
+        f = files.new_file(os.path.join(root, filename))
-]
+        f.remove_if_needed(force_remove=force)
-for path in paths:
+    if not recursive:
-    f = files.new_file(path)
+        break
-    f.remove_if_needed(force_remove=force)