scrub

Like dotnet clean but more thorough.

scrub is especially useful if you are switching between developing on Windows and WSL frequently, and you want to quickly clean out any left-over build artifacts or intermediate files. The difference between scrub and dotnet clean is that scrub removes the bin or obj folders completely, not just the build artifacts created by MSBuild.

Install

Install scrub globally with

dotnet tool install --global scrub

Usage

Simply run scrub in any folder you want to clean out. It will recursively traverse any folder and remove all bin and obj folders it encounters.

Example

Basic

bjorn:/mnt/c/src/scrub$ scrub
Should I remove '/mnt/c/src/scrub/bin'? y/n
y
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/bin'
Should I remove '/mnt/c/src/scrub/obj'? y/n
y
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/obj'

Skip user interaction

You can skip user interaction by running scrub with --ask false:

bjorn:/mnt/c/src/scrub$ scrub --ask false
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/bin'
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/obj'

Where to scrub

You can also point it to where it should scrub await folders with --path

bjorn:/mnt/c/src$ scrub --path scrub/ --ask false
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/bin'
Removing '/mnt/c/src/scrub/obj'

List folders

If you only want to list out bin and obj folders that scrub finds, run it with the --list flag:

bjorn:/mnt/c/src/scrub$ scrub --list
'/mnt/c/src/scrub/bin'
'/mnt/c/src/scrub/obj'