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Clean

sift clean finds high-confidence junk and sends it to the operating system trash — only when explicitly applied.

Terminal window
# Preview
sift clean ~/Downloads


# Apply
sift clean ~/Downloads --apply

Built-in junk candidates

Section titled “Built-in junk candidates”
*.tmp
*.swp
*.swo

Why there’s no --recursive

Section titled “Why there’s no --recursive”

This is intentional. Cleanup carries a higher destructive risk than moving files, so Sift deliberately keeps its surface narrower than organize’s — there is no recursive variant of clean today.

Listing what would be skipped

Section titled “Listing what would be skipped”
Terminal window
sift clean ~/Downloads --verbose

Lists every skipped entry individually instead of a single collapsed count.

Section titled “Related”
  • Doctor — read-only diagnostics (large files, stale archives) that clean does not act on.
  • Rules — a .sift.toml rule can also Trash a custom pattern, independent of clean’s built-in candidates.