https://github.com/olegkron/dependency-cleaner

A shell script for easy dependencies cleanup.
https://github.com/olegkron/dependency-cleaner

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A shell script for easy dependencies cleanup.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/olegkron/dependency-cleaner
• Owner: olegkron
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-02-01T11:49:45.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-17T17:32:08.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-10T12:43:44.255Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: cli, nodejs, productivity, python3, shell, shell-script, storage, utility
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.69 MB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Dependency Cleaner
 


A shell script to easily delete dependency folders in a given directory and its subdirectories. A great tool to free up disk space by removing unnecessary node_modules, .cache, pycache, target, venv, env, go/pkg folders.

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![Output example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olegkron/node_modules_remover/main/output_example.png)

## 🎉 Features

-   🔎 Recursively searches for the following folders in the input directory: "node_modules", ".cache", "pycache". "target", "venv". "env", "go/pkg" (any of them can be added or removed)

-   📊 Displays the total size of each folder

-   💽 Calculates the total space saved

-   🖥️ Works on Linux and MacOS

## 💻 Usage

The script can be executed using the following command in the terminal:

`./dependency-cleaner.sh [directory_path] [max_depth]`

-   `directory_path`: Required. The directory to search for node_modules folders.

-   `max_depth`: Optional. Sets maximum depth to search for node_modules folders. Default is 3.

## Star History

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## 🙌 Contributing

If you have any suggestions for improvements or find any bugs, feel free to open a pull request or an issue.

## 👥 Authors

-   **Oleg Kron** - [olegkron](https://github.com/olegkron)

## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](https://github.com/olegkron/node_modules_remover/blob/main/LICENSE) file for details.