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Related to this question: Clearing Firefox History via Command Line
In my last question (link above), I asked if there is a way to clean all in the Firefox options of BleachBit. I'm writing a script that will clean my computer before I reinstall or install Ubuntu (I'm just like starting fresh). There is a way but is there a command to clean all options instead of doing each (--clean [insert option from bleachbit --list here] *) one by one? Or does that option not exist?
The command bleachbit --clean *.* is generally not recommended, so it is not implemented in BleachBit. However, power users can get the same effect with the following mini-script:
bleachbit --list | grep -E "[a-z0-9_\-]+\.[a-z0-9_\-]+" | xargs bleachbit --clean
Please note this command ignores all warnings!
You can filter options by adding another grep before xargs. For example, this may save you a few hours:
bleachbit --list | grep -E "[a-z0-9_\-]+\.[a-z0-9_\-]+" | grep -v system.free_disk_space | xargs bleachbit --clean
Provided that you have a preset in your
$HOME/.config/bleachbit/bleachbit.ini
you can do:
bleachbit -c --preset
the good thing about that is that your preset settings can be exactly what you need.
