nmuidi

Deletes stuff, hopefully quickly

To download, check out the releases page or download the latest development build.

This video benchmarks several popular suggestions for deleting files quickly on Windows and compares them to nmuidi.

How to use

As a command-line tool

You can download using the link above. The easiest way to use it in Windows is to make a folder (something like C:\bin) and add that folder to your path. Then add nmuidi.exe file you downloaded to that folder and restart any terminals you have open.

Then you can run nmuidi /path/to/some/dir and you should see some output like the following:

→ ~\repos\nmuidi [main ≡ +0 ~1 -0 !]› nmuidi test
Cleaning test

To change the log level, set the RUST_LOG environment variable:

PowerShell: $env:RUST_LOG = 'trace'

CMD: set RUST_LOG=trace

The output will then look something like:

→ ~\repos\nmuidi [main ≡ +0 ~1 -0 !]› nmuidi test1 test2
Cleaning test1
Cleaning test2
Total time: 10.00s
Directory timings:
    dir test1 took 5.00s
    dir test2 took 5.00s
Done.

As a package

1. cargo add nmuidi
2. add use nmuidi::nmuidi::Cleaner;
3. Create a cleaner and clean Cleaner::new("some/path").clean();

Why the dumb name

1. It's an inside joke https://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/558748653730465633/
2. Having a complicated name makes it harder to accidentally nuke a folder. This program does NOT ask you to confirm, if you tell it to delete something it will start deleting things immediately.