Skip to content

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-modified timestamp (st_mtime) stored in each Environment object.

Path filtering in the TUI

Press / in the TUI to filter visible rows by path. The filter is a case-insensitive substring match and updates the environment table live as you type.

Examples:

django

projects/api

Any row whose path contains the typed text is kept; an empty query shows 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.