How to disable done.txt and report.txt files

[fritzrehde]

I don't care much about the tasks that I have completed, and for the sake of simplicity, I would like to only have the todo.txt file be generated (I don't want done.txt or report.txt). Is there a setting for this?

[inkarkat]

All file locations can be configured in the todo.cfg config file (found in various alternative locations in your home directory - you should have created one from the template when you started using todo.txt-cli). The relevant settings are:

export DONE_FILE="/dev/null"
export REPORT_FILE="/dev/null"

With /dev/null, you will never see those files, and anything you archive will be gone immediately. An alternative would be a file under e.g. /tmp to have a chance at getting back the contents, or maybe a file location where your user has no access (like /opt/todo-archive-disallowed) so that you'll get an error message if you accidentally trigger the archiving.