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cargo clean — Remove generated artifacts in the `target` directory. More information: <https://doc.rust-lang.org/c

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Problem

How to use the cargo clean command: Remove generated artifacts in the target directory. More information: <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-clean.html>.

Solution

cargo clean — Remove generated artifacts in the target directory. More information: <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-clean.html>.

Remove the entire target directory:

cargo clean

Remove documentation artifacts (the target/doc directory):

cargo clean --doc

Remove release artifacts (the target/release directory):

cargo clean {{[-r|--release]}}

Remove artifacts in the directory of the given profile (in this case, target/debug):

cargo clean --profile {{dev}}

Code Snippets

Remove the entire `target` directory

cargo clean

Remove documentation artifacts (the `target/doc` directory)

cargo clean --doc

Remove release artifacts (the `target/release` directory)

cargo clean {{[-r|--release]}}

Remove artifacts in the directory of the given profile (in this case, `target/debug`)

cargo clean --profile {{dev}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/cargo clean

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