mate clean¶

Remove orphaned files

Synopsis¶

Remove orphaned files: targets mate deployed earlier that no longer come from any active source, usually because the file was deleted from the repository or its source was dropped from 'sources:'.

With no arguments, the orphans are listed and nothing is removed. Name orphans to remove them, or pass --all for every one. Each removal is confirmed unless --force is given. Files you cannot write to are removed with sudo.

Hooks matching the removed files run afterwards (see 'mate hooks'); --force also confirms them.

To stop tracking a file without deleting it, use 'mate forget'.

mate clean [path...] [flags]

Examples¶

  mate clean                              # list orphans
  mate clean ~/.config/old/file.conf      # remove one orphan
  mate clean --all                        # remove every orphan, asking for each
  mate clean --all --force                # remove every orphan without asking

Options¶

      --all     remove all orphans
      --force   skip confirmation prompts
  -h, --help    help for clean

Options inherited from parent commands¶

  -c, --config string    config file (default: mate.yaml in $STATEMATE_DIR if set, else in the local config's source_dir, else in the current directory)
  -p, --profile string   override auto-detected profile

SEE ALSO¶

• mate - Statemate - system configuration management