mac-cleanup
A cleanup script for macOS
- 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
- Clears Poetry cache
Install Automatically
Using homebrew
brew tap fwartner/tap
brew install fwartner/tap/mac-cleanup
If you'll see
Error: SHA256 mismatchtry this:
- Copy "Actual" hash from error
- Run
brew edit fwartner/tap/mac-cleanup- Press
Iand changesha256 "<some hash>"with hash from step 1- Press
:, thenwqandEnter- Re-run installation
brew install fwartner/tap/mac-cleanup
Using curl
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh | bash -s install
Using wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh -O - | bash -s install
Step by Step Install
- Download:
curl -o cleanup https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/mac-cleanup - Make it executable:
chmod +x cleanup - 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
Using curl
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" | bash -s update
Using wget
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" -O - | bash -s update
Uninstall
Using curl
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" | bash -s uninstall
Using wget
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-sh/main/installer.sh" -O - | 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, --help Prints help menu
-d, --dry-run Print approx space to be cleaned
-v, --verbose Print script debug info
-u, --update Run brew update
Contributors
Code Contributors
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