bleachbit Command Examples

Clean junk files on the filesystem. More information: https://docs.bleachbit.org/doc/command-line-interface.html.

• Start the graphical user interface (GUI) version of Bleachbit:

bleachbit --gui

• Shred a file:

bleachbit --shred {{path/to/file}}

• List available cleaner options:

bleachbit --list-cleaners

• Preview the files that will be deleted and other changes that will be made before actually performing the clean-up operation:

bleachbit --preview {{--preset|cleaner1.option1 cleaner2.* ...}}

• Perform the clean-up operation and delete files:

bleachbit --clean {{--preset|cleaner1.option1 cleaner2.* ...}}