apptainer-cache-clean - Clean your local Apptainer cache

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  EXAMPLE  SEE ALSO  HISTORY 

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NAME

apptainer-cache-clean - Clean your local Apptainer cache

SYNOPSIS

apptainer cache clean [clean options...]

DESCRIPTION

This will clean your local cache (stored at $HOME/.apptainer/cache if
APPTAINER_CACHEDIR is not set). By default the entire cache is cleaned, use
--days and --type flags to override this behavior. Note: if you use Apptainer
as root, cache will be stored in ’/root/.apptainer/.cache’, to clean that
cache, you will need to run ’cache clean’ as root, or with ’sudo’.

OPTIONS

		-D, --days=0	remove all cache entries older than specified number of days
		-n, --dry-run[=false]	operate in dry run mode and do not actually clean the cache
		-f, --force[=false]	suppress any prompts and clean the cache
		-h, --help[=false]	help for clean
		-T, --type=[all]	a list of cache types to clean (possible values: library, oci, shub, blob, net, oras, all)

EXAMPLE

All group commands have their own help output:

$ apptainer help cache clean --days 30
$ apptainer help cache clean --type=library,oci
$ apptainer cache clean --help

SEE ALSO

apptainer-cache(1)

HISTORY

15-May-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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