Delete artifacts and their entire directory from maven local repository

Question

I am trying to delete old artifacts and the directory they live in from my .m2/repository directory. For example I have several versions of projectA: 4.7.0.222, 4.7.0.223, 4.7.0.224 etc. I only need to keep 4.7.0.224 project since it is the latest build.

How can I remove the older 2 versions 4.7.0.222 and 4.7.0.223 without manually deleting them? I have tried this command:

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=false -DactTransitively=false -Dverbose=true 

When I was in those project directories, everything was successful, but the items still remained. Does maven have any commands that are similar to a full linux "rm -rf" or No?

Answer 1

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/usage.html#The_dependency:purge-local-repository_mojo

<强>依赖性：吹扫本地存储库

  

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此目标旨在从本地存储库中删除当前项目（或多个模块构建的项目）的所有依赖项。

     

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https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/examples/purging-local-repository.html#Other_purge_configuration

  

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要清除所有给定 groupId 的依赖关系，请使用resolutionFuzziness配置参数。

     

如果既未指定include也未指定exlude，则清除当前项目的所有依赖项。

     

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• 文件 - 只删除工件的文件。
  
• 版本 - 删除包含此工件的版本目录。
  
• artifactId - 删除包含此工件的artifactId目录。
  
• groupId - 删除包含此工件的groupId目录结构。
  

     

要添加不删除 [...] 工件的限制，请将exclude参数添加为逗号分隔的groupId：artifactId对列表。