Whenever I run n latest, I generally always want all the previously-installed versions uninstalled. This is currently a painful process. I type n, try to remember the not-latest version numbers it shows on the screen, then I have to type n rm 6.8.0 etc. to remove each old version I may have.
Can there be an easier way to remove old versions? Perhaps in the version-selection screen, what I get by just typing n, highlighting a version and pressing delete would remove it? Or a command like n rm <6.8.1 or n rm <latest or somesuch?
GeoffreyBooth
All 8 comments
+1
taoyuan
on 26 Oct 2016
@taoyuan just fyi. Github supports +1, please use that functionality so we can keep issues clean, https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments
EvanCarroll
on 28 Oct 2016
@EvanCarroll Got it. Thanks!
taoyuan
on 29 Oct 2016
Here's a bash-specific solution, based on grepping for the escape codes in the output. The grep expression part before the pipe character drops any uninstalled versions, and the part after the pipe drops the currently active version. The output is then put all on one line and used as the argument to n rm.
n rm $(n ls | egrep -v $'\033\[90m|\033\[36m' | tr '\n' ' ')
ilkka
on 12 Apr 2017
We now have n prune which remove all old versions that are not active. I probably should update the docs. If this suits your needs I can close this issue.
troy0820
on 12 Apr 2017
Oh nice, I was on 2.1.3 so I didn't have that (at least not in the CLI help text IIRC).
ilkka
on 12 Apr 2017
Yeah it's on 2.1.7
troy0820
on 12 Apr 2017
This has been added as n prune and is in the README.
shadowspawn
on 23 Mar 2019
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We now have
n prunewhich remove all old versions that are not active. I probably should update the docs. If this suits your needs I can close this issue.