Save your files from being automatically deleted from scratch/share directory.

save_my_scratch.py

import os
import time
from tqdm import tqdm
import argparse
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Script to read files from directory to prevent automatic deletion")
parser.add_argument('--path',default=None,help="Enter directory path of your scratch or share space. Eg: /scratch/dave/ ")
parser.add_argument('--days',default=5,type=int,help="If last access day of file is beyond this, read the file to prevent deletion(default:5)")
args = parser.parse_args()

if len(sys.argv)==1:
    parser.print_help(sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)

file_count = sum(len(files) for _, _, files in os.walk(args.path))
print("INFO: Total files in given path : {}".format(file_count))
print("INFO: Reading files....")

"""Current time in system location timezone"""
current_time = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(time.time()))
current_day = current_time.split(' ')[0].split('-')[2]
count=0

with tqdm(total=file_count) as pbar:
    for root, dir, files in os.walk(args.path):

        if len(files):
            last_access_times = [os.path.getatime(os.path.join(root, file_name)) for file_name in files]
            last_access_times = [time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(elem)) for elem in last_access_times]
            last_access_day = [elem.split(' ')[0].split('-')[2] for elem in last_access_times]
            for day in last_access_day:
                assert int(day) <= 31 and int(day) >= 1, "Bruh! the date format seems to be incorrect"

            days_since_read = [abs(int(current_day) - int(elem)) for elem in last_access_day]
            for i in range(len(days_since_read)):
                if days_since_read[i] >= args.days:
                    with open(os.path.join(root,files[i]),"rb") as f:
                        out = f.read()
                        # Even though python does garbage collection for file object automatically,still!!!
                        f.close()
                    count += 1
                pbar.update(1)
print("INFO: Done!")

Prevent automatic file deletion from /scratch or /share directory space(usually happens every 10 days) while using HPC systems.

Usage :
python save_my_scratch.py --path /scratch/(your username)

You can run this bash command instead. If the target path is /scratch/dave and target days are 14,

find /scratch/dave -type f -atime +14 -exec file {} > /dev/null \;