Cargo Kill

Reclaim disk space from build/cache directories across cargo and npm projects, in one pass

Installation

cargo install cargo-kill-all

Usage

cargo-kill-all /home/Documents/ -t 4

A single pass scans the tree and lists every detected project. No project-type flag is needed — cargo and npm projects show up together, and a directory matching multiple kinds (e.g. Cargo.toml + package.json) appears once with all its targets unioned.

What gets cleaned

For npm projects, framework caches are inferred from dependencies and devDependencies in package.json:

Each detected project is a single selectable row whose size is the sum of all its detected directories; selecting it removes all of them.

More detector kinds (flutter, gradle, etc.) can be added by appending entries to PROJECT_KINDS in src/utils.rs.

Including .git

Pass --include-git to also surface .git directories. With this flag:

• Any directory containing .git becomes a row, even without a Cargo.toml/package.json — useful for cleaning out abandoned local checkouts.
• For projects already detected by another kind, .git is appended to that project's targets list.

This wipes local repository history. The .git entry is shown in the row's targets before the confirmation prompt.

This project is heavily inspired by dnlmlr's crate

cargo-clean-all

Demo

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