/mac-cleanup-sh

🗑️ Cleanup script for macOS (DEPRECATED)

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

mac-cleanup

A cleanup script for macOS that runs the following tasks:

  • Empty the Trash on All Mounted Volumes and the Main HDD
  • Clear System Log Files
  • Clear Adobe Cache Files
  • Cleanup iOS Applications
  • Remove iOS Device Backups
  • Cleanup Xcode Derived Data and Archives
  • Reset iOS simulators
  • Cleanup Homebrew Cache
  • Cleanup Any Old Versions of Gems
  • Cleanup Dangling Docker Images
  • Purge Inactive Memory
  • Cleanup pip cache
  • Cleanup Pyenv-VirtualEnv Cache
  • Cleanup npm Cache
  • Cleanup Yarn Cache
  • Cleanup Docker Images and Stopped Containers
  • Cleanup CocoaPods Cache Files
  • Cleanup composer cache
  • Cleanup Dropbox cache
  • Remove PhpStorm logs
  • Remove Minecraft logs and cache
  • Remove Steam logs and cache
  • Remove Lunar Client logs and cache
  • Remove Microsoft Teams logs and cache
  • Remove Wget logs and hosts
  • Removes Cacher logs
  • Deletes Android caches
  • Clears Gradle caches
  • Deletes Kite logs
  • Clears Go module cache

Install Automatically

Using homebrew

brew tap fwartner/tap
brew install fwartner/tap/mac-cleanup

Using curl

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh)"

Using wget

bash -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh -O -)"

Step by Step Install

  1. Download: curl -o cleanup https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/mac-cleanup
  2. Make it executable: chmod +x cleanup
  3. Move to make it globally usable: sudo mv cleanup /usr/local/bin/cleanup

Note:

If installing with curl you need to call cleanup instead of mac-cleanup.

Update

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" | bash -s update

Uninstall

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" | bash -s uninstall

Usage Options

Help menu:

$ mac-cleanup -h

A Mac Cleanup Utility by fwartner
https://github.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh

USAGE:
 mac-cleanup [FLAGS]

FLAGS:
-h,   prints help menu
-n    no brew updates

Contributors

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