xbalaji · August 1, 2020 19:41 · xbalaji · Jul 31, 2020
diff --git a/firefox-delete-temporary-containers.sh b/firefox-delete-temporary-containers.sh
 #!/bin/bash

 # cleanup containers.json (remove tmp containers, sort them by name)
 # open command prompt in profiles directory and execute
 cp containers.json c01.json
 jq -r '.' c01.json | tr -d '\r' | tac | sed '/name.*tmp/{n;N;N;N;N;d}' | tac | sed '/name.*tmp/,+1d' | yq '.' | jq '.identities|=sort_by(.name)' > containers.json

 preserve=""
 for id in $(jq -r '.identities[] | .userContextId' containers.json | tr -d '\r'  | sort -rn); do
  preserve="$id\|$preserve"
 done;

 # delete the unused containers from storage
 find storage/default -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "about*" -regex ".*\^userContextId=[0-9]+\$" -not -regex ".*\^userContextId=\($preserve\)\$" -exec rm -rf {} \;