Pamac clean ALL caches in a one liner script

This one does not work, because its a one liner?

pamac  clean -k 0  -b --no-confirm

Its ok if i split this command in two lines:

#! /bin/sh
echo "pamac clean all caches"
# OHNE build Dateien
/usr/bin/pamac  clean  -v --no-confirm
# jetzt extra build-Dateien
/usr/bin/pamac  clean  -b -v --no-confirm

But why is not possible as a one liner?

Just curious.

I would not try to build a systemd service, run every day at 23 o’clock to clean all caches if i could tell pamac or pacman to avoid any use of cache!

-b : remove only aur cache
these 2 caches are very different
you can add 2 commands in an alias as “pacman clean -k 1 && pamac clean -b”

This service exists, and is enabled. You can override him

/usr/lib/systemd/system/pamac-cleancache.timer # run .service one run by month
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pamac-cleancache.service

cache aur or pacman ? not possible to not use cache (where download packages ?) we can only use /tmp/ if we have ram for that. Directory for pacman is in etc/pacman.conf


Do you lack so much space to consider these extremes?

I’m on stable branch and do a complete system-backup every night with backintime. So i never need that cache!

backup and clear “aur build cache” :astonished: this cache is useful for update ! if you clear him : you not use it and so no raison to backup him

For pacman cache… as written, we have a active timer for clear it, you can change it (OnCalendar key)

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Thank you i have to remember these

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I adjusted pamac-cleancache.timer and *.service to be run every day!

I’ll see tomorrow if that works, thank you for that tipp!

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