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A simple utility to clean your mac of old stuff

Project description

cleanmymac

A simple command line tool to clean old stuff from your mac

documentation

http://cleanmymac.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

usage

$ cleanmymac -h
usage: cleanmymac [-h] [-u] [-d] [-q] [-l] [-s] [-c CONFIG] [-t TARGETS_PATH]
                  [TARGETS [TARGETS ...]]

cleanmymac v0.1.8, a simple utility designed to help clean your mac from
old/unwanted stuff

positional arguments:
  TARGETS               the list of targets to execute. Execute all if not
                        specified.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u, --update          update the target if applicable
  -d, --dry_run         describe the actions to be performed, do not execute
                        them
  -q, --quiet           run in quiet mode
  -l, --list            list registered cleanup targets
  -s, --stop_on_error   stop execution when first error is detected
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        specify the configuration path
  -t TARGETS_PATH, --targets_path TARGETS_PATH
                        specify extra yaml defined targets path

a typical usage pattern is:

$ cleanmymac

installation

install from pypi:

$ pip install cleanmymac

clone the repository locally and issue

$ python setup.py install

configuration

the cleanmymac utility accepts a configuration file by specifying the -c option. If not specified the file is assumed to be at the following location ~/.cleanmymac.yaml

the global configuration can be used (for now) to pass specific env vars to shell commands, for example assume that anaconda is not in the main path:

cleanmymac: {
  targets_path: ['.']
}
anaconda: {
  env: {
    PATH: '~/anaconda/bin',
  },
}

extensibility

one can add more cleanup targets either by installing them as python classes registered to the following entry-point: cleanmymac.target like this (in setup.py):

entry_points={
    # ....
    'cleanmymac.target': [
        'my_target_name = my.python.package.MyTargetClass'
    ]
    # ...
}

alternatively for shell based commands simply create yaml files with the following schema:

type: 'cmd'
spec: {
  update_commands: [
    'brew update',
    'brew outdated | brew upgrade'
  ],
  clean_commands: [
    'brew cleanup'
  ]
}

or for cleaning up directories (removing all but the latest version):

type: 'dir'
spec: {
    update_message: 'Get the latest MacTex version from https://www.tug.org/mactex/',
    entries: [
        {
            dir: '/usr/local/texlive/',
            pattern: '\d+'
        },
    ]
}

note: see the cleanmymac.builtins module for more details

and point cleanmymac to the folder where the yaml files reside with the -t command line option

builtin targets

to see a list of builtin targets run:

$ cleanmymac -l
currently the following are supported:
  • homebrew

  • java jdk

  • mactex

  • anaconda

  • trash

disclaimer

I created this utility in the hope that others may find it useful, as I found it annoying to always remember how and what to clean from my mac. This is work in progress, so use at your own risk!

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