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Filtering and Selection

Excluding paths

The top-level command accepts comma-separated exclusion patterns:

killpy --path ~ --exclude "archive,backups,legacy"

Those exclusions are applied by substring matching against discovered paths.

Filtering by age

The list and delete commands support --older-than:

killpy list --older-than 90
killpy delete --older-than 180 --dry-run

This filter is based on the recorded last-accessed timestamp stored in each Environment object.

Regex filtering in the TUI

Press / in the TUI to filter visible rows by path. The filter uses regular expressions and updates the environment table live.

Examples:

django

/(api|worker|etl)/

If the regex is invalid, the TUI falls back to showing all rows.

Multi-select workflow

  1. Press t to enable multi-select mode.
  2. Press Space to toggle individual rows.
  3. Press a to select or deselect all visible non-deleted rows.
  4. Press Ctrl+d to delete the selected set.

The multi-select model operates on the currently visible rows, so active filtering can help narrow large scans before deletion.