BLEACHBIT(1)

📦 version 6.0.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 BLEACHBIT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for bleachbit, from the User Commands crew 🫶. It's the glow-up your filesystem has been begging for.

✨ NAME ✨

bleachbit — delete unnecessary files from the system 🧹💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bleachbit [options] cleaner.option1 [cleaner.option2 ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Basically it's the friend who comes over, looks at your Downloads folder, and goes "girl. no." 💀

Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. No cap, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more. The way it just handles all of them?? iconic. 👑

This is the command line interface for BleachBit, btw. Terminal girlies, this one's for you. 😌

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic move, always valid 🫶
  • -l, --list-cleaners — list cleaners. go window shopping before you commit ✨
  • -c, --clean — run cleaners to delete files and make other permanent changes. PERMANENT. like, permanent permanent. say it with me: per-ma-nent 💀
  • --debug — set log level to verbose. she's telling you EVERYTHING 🗣️
  • --debug-log=DEBUG_LOG — log debug messages to file. receipts, in writing, on disk 📝
  • -s, --shred — shred specific files or folders. gone gone, not just trash-can gone 🔥
  • --sysinfo — show system information. vibe check on your machine 🌈
  • --gui — launch the graphical interface. for when you want buttons instead of typing 🎀
  • -p, --preview — preview files to be deleted and other changes. THE most important step, bestie, do not skip 💖
  • --preset — use options set in the graphical interface. your GUI choices, remembered 👑
  • -w, --wipe-free-space — wipe free space in the given paths. scrubbing the empty rooms too 🧼
  • -v, --version — output version information and exit. who are you? ✨
  • -o, --overwrite — overwrite files to hide contents. sneaky, sneaky 🙈
lowkey reminder: --clean and --shred and --overwrite are the "no takebacks" girlies. preview first, always. 💜

This manual page is Copyright © 2019 Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org>.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. slay, legally speaking 💖

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go free up some disk space bestie 🦋✨

this was bleachbit, from October 2019 — mwah, ily, take care of your cache 💅💖

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