makecleanRemoves generated and downloaded files from code projects to free up space.
makeclean should work on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Only tested on Linux and Mac though.
Run
makeclean --helpto see all available options.
List all projects that are "stale", that is, have not been changed recently, under a given path, using --list/-l:
bash
makeclean --list ~/projects
By default, a project is considered stale if there weren't any changed for at least a month. You can change this by using --min-stale/-m; for example, to consider all projects that have not been modified within the last 2 weeks:
bash
makeclean --list --min-stale=2w ~/projects
Set --min-stale to zero to disable the check:
bash
makeclean --list --min-stale=0 ~/projects
You can also filter by build tool using --type/-t:
bash
makeclean --list --type npm ~/projects
By default, makeclean looks for any projects that haven't been touched for a month, and offers to clean them:
bash
makeclean ~/projects
Use --dry-run/-n to see what would happen, without actually deleting anything:
bash
makeclean --dry-run ~/projects
If you run makeclean in a script and don't want the prompt, you can pass --yes to proceed automatically:
bash
makeclean --yes ~/projects
If you also want to archive the projects after cleaning them up, pass --archive. For example, the following command would replace the contents of ~/projects/foo with ~/projects/foo.tar.xz, after cleaning it:
bash
makeclean --archive ~/projects/foo
Note that while
--archivealso considers cleaned projects, it still respects--min-stale. If makeclean doesn't find your project but you think it should, try again with the environment variableRUST_LOGset totrace, e.g.,RUST_LOG=trace makeclean --archive ~/projects/foo. You should see a hint as to why the project was not considered. If the logs don't tell you what's going on, please consider creating a GitHub issue.
To restore the project, use tar (which is probably already installed on your system):
bash
cd ~/projects/foo
tar -xaf foo.tar.xz && rm foo.tar.xz
Let's say you have a list of directories where you know you'll create a lot of one-off projects you don't need to keep around in a ready state. You can use the following command to automically process them:
```bash $ cat playground.txt ~/code/rust-playground ~/code/elm-playground ~/code/flutter-playground
$ # Replacing newlines with zero-bytes is needed to process whitespace correctly without fiddling around with IFS...
$ xargs -0 -n 1 makeclean --min-stale=7d --yes < <(tr \n \0 Check out the documentation on crates.io. PRs welcome! MIT. Any contributions are assumed MIT-licensed as well.Limitations
makeclean only supports UTF-8 encoded paths.Hack it
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