gistfile1.txt

# This script was written to facilitate listing files
# for easy removal. It parses the output of find so
# that the files are all listed in date sorted order.

# from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094841/reusable-library-to-get-human-readable-version-of-file-size
def sizeof_fmt(num):
  for x in ['bytes','KB','MB','GB']:
    if num < 1024.0 and num > -1024.0:
      return "%3.1f%s" % (num, x)
    num /= 1024.0
  return "%3.1f%s" % (num, 'TB')

import subprocess
output=subprocess.Popen(["find", "."], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
split = output[0].split('\n')

zoo = []

import re
for i in split:
  m = re.match('\D+\d+\D+(\d+).+', i)
  if m:
    zoo.append([i, m.groups()])

from operator import itemgetter, attrgetter
zoosort = sorted(zoo, key=itemgetter(1))

import os
for i in zoosort:
  print "rm ", i[0], sizeof_fmt(os.stat(i[0]).st_size)