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del-gradle

Gradle Build Cleaner

Deletes Gradle build/ directories and optionally cleans user-level Gradle cache/temp directories.

Aliases

  • del-gradle (default)

Usage

del-gradle [options]

Options

Option Description
-h, --help Show help message
-g, --global Also clean user-level Gradle cache/temp directories (caches/, wrapper/dists/, daemon/, native/, buildOutputCleanup/ under ~/.gradle)

Description

  • Default mode (no flags): Searches for build.gradle files and deletes the adjacent build/ directories, ignoring node_modules and vendor directories
  • With -g / --global: After cleaning project build/ directories, also removes known Gradle cache and temp directories from the Gradle user home (~/.gradle):
  • caches/ — module artifacts, transformed classes
  • wrapper/dists/ — downloaded Gradle wrapper distributions
  • daemon/ — daemon registry and output logs
  • native/ — native platform library extraction
  • buildOutputCleanup/ — build output cleanup cache

Source

See src/del-gradle.cjs (core logic in src/cache-cleaner/gradle.cjs).