xcclear

Say hello to a few extra gigabytes of space on your Mac with xcclear, a simple and easy to use command line application written in Go for cleaning unnecessary XCode files.

Installation

brew install lajosdeme/utils/xcclear

Screenshots

Run xcclear -d to diagnose your storage:

Run xcclear -p to purge all unwanted files from your storage:

Options

flag | type | description -------------------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------ -d/--diagnose | bool | Diagnose the total space occupied by derived data, caches and other XCode related files.<br> -p/--purge | bool | Clean all caches/unnecessary files.
-c/--clear | string | Clean only the specified directories.<br>Options can be:<br> - derived: Derived Data.<br> - device: iOS DeviceSupport (The latest iOS version will be kept.)<br> - watch: watchOS DeviceSupport<br> - simulator: 'CoreSimulator'<br> - cache: Xcode caches located at ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode<br> - archives: Archives -v/--version | bool | Get the current version.

Development

Compiling from source

go get github.com/lajosdeme/xcclear

If $GOPATH/bin is on your $PATH run xcclear -h to see usage options.

Contributing

If you have any suggestions or questions feel free to raise an issue or reach out to me directly via <a href="mailto:lajosd@protonmail.ch">lajosd@protonmail.ch</a>.

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