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Why this exists Two file tasks come up constantly: housekeeping (delete old logs) and analysis (count things in a big log). Node's promise based file API handles the first cleanly, and streams handle the second without…

Files with fs/promises: Log Cleanup and Streaming Large Log Files

Walk a directory tree with an async generator, delete files older than a cutoff with a dry run and safety guards, and process very large log files line by line with readline streams instead of loading them into memory.

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