mvnclean

A tiny utility to remove older dependencies from your Maven repository.

Usage

mvnclean [options]

Where options include:

• -r <repository path> if you want to specify this explicitly; otherwise mavenclean will check your M2_REPO environment variable and also the default location in ~/.m2/repository
• -m <months> to specify how recently-accessed a file has to be in order to be retained
• i <pattern> to ignore specific patterns if you have items that you don't want to delete even though they haven't been accessed recently
• --prune to remove empty folders, or folders tha will become empty after their children are removed
• -? to see the help and options

Status

This is basically operational, but I'd like to clean it up a little before turning it into a Ruby gem for others to consume. If you'd like me to hurry up, drop me a line.

Future

Some avenues for future enhancements:

• Might be useful to have different thresholds for how old you want your dependencies to be allowed to be.
• Also may consider alternate selection criteria (e.g. #11, which requests retaining only the latest non-snapshot version of dependencies)
• Could have a prompt before deleting, and then an option for non-interactive invocation.