Clean empty files and folders.
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-cleanempty --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt;
The "cleanempty" task
Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named cleanempty
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
.
grunt;
Options
options.files
Type: Boolean
Default value: true
Remove empty files or not.
options.folders
Type: Boolean
Default value: true
Remove empty folders or not.
options.force
Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Override the task from blocking deletion of folders outside current working dir (CWD). Use with caution.
options.noJunk
Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Consider folders that only have junk files in them to be empty. Use in conjunction with options.folders
set to true
.
Usage Examples
Default Options
grunt;
Custom Options
grunt;
Roadmap Features
- switch to asynchronous file system functions to better support grunt-concurrent
Release History
- 1.0.4 supports grunt
1.x
and npm3.x
- 1.0.3 added
options.noJunk
- 1.0.2 performance enhancement
- 1.0.1 tweaked log verbosity
- 1.0.0 release
- 0.2.1 added tests
- 0.2.0 added
options.folders
- 0.1.0 initial release