1 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // A utility to clear the operating system's cache for a file or directory.
7 // USAGE: clear_system_cache [--recurse] <files or directories>
11 #include "base/basictypes.h"
12 #include "base/command_line.h"
13 #include "base/files/file_enumerator.h"
14 #include "base/files/file_path.h"
15 #include "base/files/file_util.h"
16 #include "base/logging.h"
17 #include "base/test/test_file_util.h"
19 void ClearCacheForFile(const base::FilePath
& path
) {
20 VLOG(1) << "Clearing " << path
.MaybeAsASCII();
21 base::EvictFileFromSystemCache(path
);
24 int main(int argc
, const char* argv
[]) {
25 CommandLine::Init(argc
, argv
);
26 const CommandLine
& parsed_command_line
= *CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess();
27 bool should_recurse
= parsed_command_line
.HasSwitch("recurse");
28 const CommandLine::StringVector
& args
= parsed_command_line
.GetArgs();
30 if (args
.size() < 1) {
31 printf("USAGE: %s [--recurse] <files or directories>\n", argv
[0]);
35 for (size_t i
= 0; i
< args
.size(); ++i
) {
36 base::FilePath
path(args
[i
]);
37 if (!base::PathExists(path
)) {
38 LOG(ERROR
) << "Couldn't find " << path
.MaybeAsASCII();
42 if (base::DirectoryExists(path
)) {
43 base::FileEnumerator
enumerator(path
, should_recurse
,
44 base::FileEnumerator::FILES
);
45 for (base::FilePath next
= enumerator
.Next(); !next
.empty();
46 next
= enumerator
.Next()) {
47 ClearCacheForFile(next
);
50 ClearCacheForFile(path
);