I was a bit shocked when I realized that my rust target directories took up a total of over 50gb, so I developed this tool to help me clean up all the project target dirs. There is already cargo-clean-recursive which unfortunately doesn't support keeping recent files in order to not slow down the projects I'm currently working on.
This is a custom cargo comand that analyses all cargo target directories under a given parent directory
and allows for cleaning them, following certain criteria. The cleaning-criteria include
keep target dirs last modified X days ago and keep target dirs with size less than X. Before
actually doing anything, the detected projects are listed with their individual and total target
dir sizes. The actual cleaning must be confirmed unless --yes is specified.
The actual cleaning consists of simply deleting the target directories from the detected projects,
which seems to be what cargo clean does by default
Install using cargo:
cargo install cargo-clean-all
Clean all target directories under the current working directory.
cargo clean-all
Clean all target directories under the directory [dir].
cargo clean-all --dir [dir]
Keep target directories that have a size of less than [filesize].
cargo clean-all --keep-size [filesize]
Keep target directories younger than [days] days.
cargo clean-all --keep-days [days]
Specify the number of threads to use for the recursive scan .
cargo clean-all --threads [number of threads]
| Feature | cargo-clean-all | cargo-clean-recursive |
|------------------------------------------------|:---:|:---:|
| Clean projects under current dir | yes | yes |
| Clean projects under any dir | yes | no |
| Display freed up / freeable disk space | yes | no |
| Keep target dirs below a size threshold | yes | no |
| Keep target dirs with a last modified treshold | yes | no |
| Ask before cleaning | yes | no |
| Clean only release, debug or docs | no (not yet) | yes |
| Speed (non scientific, cleaning my home dir) | 15 sec | 24 sec |