+#!/bin/sh
+
+# A simple shell script to delete a media from Apache's mod_disk_cache.
+
+SCRIPTNAME=${0##*/}
+
+# mod_disk_cache directory
+CACHE_DIRECTORY="/tmp/pleroma-media-cache"
+
+## Removes an item via the htcacheclean utility
+## $1 - the filename, can be a pattern .
+## $2 - the cache directory.
+purge_item() {
+ htcacheclean -p "${2}" "${1}"
+} # purge_item
+
+purge() {
+ for url in "$@"
+ do
+ echo "$SCRIPTNAME delete \`$url\` from cache ($CACHE_DIRECTORY)"
+ purge_item "$url" $CACHE_DIRECTORY
+ done
+}
+
+purge "$@"