Tidy -- simple python script to clean annoying files and directories

Hi all,
recently I opened a much-used flash drive and there was a lot of files like Thumbs.db, Mac OS' ._*, .DS_Store, etc all over it, making using it really annoying.
So I decided to mimic a simple utility I saw as a plugin in Rockbox, which takes all of these files and deletes them.
The result is a simple python script which you can find at:
http://github.com/houbysoft/short/blob/master/tidy
Usage should be self-explanatory. Be warned, by default, it deletes everything that matches the regular expressions without warning (this should be fine though, so if you want to be safe, try the -s and -v (simulate, verbose) or -p (prompt) options first.
As usual, any feedback is welcome, and if you know of other files it should clean, please post them here!

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> On our internal web page we have some links to various
areas like Office Forms,
> Safety, etc... The supervisors that maintain these
documents have access to
> shares that allow them add, remove, and update the files
as needed. Since the
> content in each changes fairly often we're currently
using CFDIRECTORY with the
> LIST action to display the contents to the users on the
web page.
>
> Some of the areas now contain quite a few documents and
the supervisors would
> like to be able to group their documents in
subdirectories. I know I can I can
> use RECURSE="yes" to have the web page list the contents
of these folders, but
> the supervisors would like the end users to see the
subdirectories as well so
> things are less confusing and cluttered on both ends.
>
> So is there any way in CF to set up these pages so that
subdirectories can can
> be navigated and the documents selected? If possible,
I'd like something that
> can handle this dynamically so that I don't have to
constantly change the code
> every time a supervisor decides to add/remove a
directory.
>
> We're currently running CF8 Standard.
>
> Thanks!
>
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