nmuidi

Deletes stuff, hopefully quickly

Download for Windows

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.